Exploring Goolge for the Classroom

Google is a very interactive site for children and adults. It offers many tools that teachers can use in the classroom to encourage students to participate and become active in their learning. The first site I would recommend for a teacher to use with students would be Google Sketch Up. This site is really ideal for an art teacher. It has many shapes, colors, and is 3-D dimensional for the inspiring artist in your classroom. Or, it could be used for math, science, and or social studies.

The next google site would be google earth. It allows the students to view places on earth via satellite, either from bird's eye view or up close and personal. It shows maps, street views, and you can even see where you live. This is ideal for social studies, geography, even for driver's ed.

Google also have many different tools that teachers and students can use. These are google calendar, reader, images, doc, and maps. These tools can be an alternative to the Microsoft Office that has to be purchased on computers now. Students can use google docs just like microsoft word.

There are also google lesson sites for teachers such as googlelittrips. This site enhances ways for English and Literature teachers to expound on different readings and gives students a different perspective by allowing them to see different parts of the world when reading or researching on a topic. Then, for Math teachers there is realworld math.org. This site can engage students to learn meaningful and practical math lessons. Lastly, there is langwitches.org this is fit for the social studies teacher. Again, it allows the teacher to expand the students learning through different avenues besides the text book.