- Leslie—religious tour
- Kaylee—natural disaster tour
I think that there are definitely both benefits and downfalls to using Google Earth in a classroom. I think that some of the benefits would be that the kids would actually get to see the places that you have been talking about in your classroom. You can use different layers tools to see things in 3-D, or use the 360 function. This will allow the students to actually see the size scale of things. I think that the students would also pay attention more if you were using a virtual tour to teach things that can be very dull for kids. Some downsides to this, though, would it takes so much time! I highly doubt that I will have time to mess around with Google Earth when there are test to be graded, lesson plans to write, children to assess, curriculum to teach, and getting to know the kids. I also think that my students will not be old enough to use it. I struggled really hard designing a tour and I am an adult. I don’t think that writing all the special codes, troubleshooting, figuring out the layers, and creating links is very realistic for the young kids that I want to teach. I can see the benefits of this but I think that the downfalls out-weigh the benefits.
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