Google Expeditions in World Cultures by Mrs. Skiles

Students in Mrs. Skiles World Culture's class completed Google Expeditions as an introduction to human and physical geography. The goal was for students to explore Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo, Brazil and discover the human and physical geography of those places. This is the first time the student have worked with human and physical geography.  First in their Google docs warm-up page, they created a statement on what they think are human and physical geography.  Next, students are given a t-chart with physical and human geography.  Using Google Expeditions the students explore scenes from Rio and Sao Paulo.  As we explore the students listed what they think are features of the human and physical geography.

During the next class students will continue to explore but this time having a class discussion over the lists they created.  Students will then develop personal definitions for human and physical geography.  (Personal definitions in my opinion are better than standard because they own the definition and can remember it better.)