Tag: earth

Teaching Earth Sciences and Planetary Motion

Post author By Michel
Post date March 6, 2009
Categories In ETEC 533, Teaching, Technology
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Many science teachers struggle to with lessons surrounding Earth Sciences. Explaining the planetary motions that give rise to day, night, seasons, differences in insolation and tides are not simple, concrete topics that students can easily grasp. I have struggled with teaching lessons surrounding these and similar ideas in my own Science 10 classes. I believe […]

Google Earth 5.0

Post author By Michel
Post date February 10, 2009
Categories In Classroom Tools, ETEC 533, MET, Teaching, Technology, Useful Tools
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Google Earth 5.0 was released last week and I have been meaning to post about it for some time now.Â A new feature added to Google’s already acclaimed software is the ability to step forward and backward through all available satellite imagery with a feature called “Historical Data”.Â This relates to research in my ETEC […]