How to Teach Area and Perimeter using Google Earth
VIDEO LINK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHwrehm6HO8
This instructional video demonstrates how to use Google Earth to teach area and perimeter. The video serves as a tutorial for teachers, and even though it is not a "classroom" example, it is an excellent application under the constructivist tenet. Students can use the program to construct viable knowledge about area and perimeter.
A lesson plan such as this supports the constructivism tenet in that learning is an active process of constructing meaning. Further, the lesson is engaging and provides a worldly experience under which a student can learn about area and perimeter.
~Ellen Bloomfield
This video is a tutorial for teachers on teaching area and perimeter using Google Earth. The narrator points out that you’ve “gotta make learning fun,” and having students measure familiar landmarks can be a way to do that. In the video, he shows two examples: one of measuring the Pentagon and another of measuring the students’ own school. These learning activities are good examples of active learning exercises which could be useful for a teacher interested in incorporating more constructivist activities into the math classroom
~Stacey Greenwell
The following video provides a visual of how a constructivist elementary classroom is guided by the teacher with questioning and exploring and discovering of the objects with peers. There are a total of three videos that accompany the example above. This video illustrates the concept of constructivism because it shows the teacher encouraging the students to be engaged as they construct meaning with the different shapes.
~Renee Kaufmann
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