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The objective of our blog is to share information about how we integrate our technology curriculum into the subject area curriculum. The foundation of this effort is the methodology of team teaching the lessons with the Middle School subject area teachers. Each post describes a particular lesson, the software used, some of the skills that were targeted, and the number of days that were spent in the lab.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Sumerian Cities and Sketchup
The 6th Grade Social Studies students used Google Earth and Google Sketchup to create a model of an ancient Sumerian city. They included crop fields, irrigation canals, fortifications, housing and a ziggurat. The students needed to use navigation tools like zoom, orbit and pan in order to construct all the different features of their model. This lesson took approximately four days to complete.
