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Smart Globe

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Michelle Ball

Haley Williams

June 9, 2012

Geography

 

The Smart Globe

About Smart Globe

Smart globes makes learning about the world very different in an instant. The Smart Globe gives kids the opportunity to learn about the diverse world in which we live, in an interactive way that makes learning fun. The Smart Globe solves problems by using the Internet to update its database. The Smart Globe teaches more than geography, it teaches interesting facts about every country in the world, along with geography, map-reading skills, and world news. The Smart Globe works with a special SmartPen. The SmartPen is used to choose a topic on the activity panel. With the SmartPen, students can point to any spot on the globe or the U.S. slide-out made in order to learn about history, cultures, languages, local traditions, and much more. There are six Spanish activities, which is great for some bilingual students. The Smart Globe comes with 30 activities built into it. These activities come in three age levels: five to eight, nine to fourteen, and fifteen and up. It also includes one year of free downloads from the date of the purchase. There is a USB cable included. The Smart Globe is 13.5” in diameter. Four AA batteries and two AAA batteries power the Smart Globe.

 

Included in Smart Globe:

Smart Globe                        Four AA Batteries           

CD –Rom                        Two AAA Batteries            

USB Cable                                   

Adapter                                   

Wireless SmartPen                       

Speaker                                   

Light                                                

Base

Slide out local map

Activity Panel

Flags of the World

State Flags

User Manual

 

Video of 3 Year Old Andrei using a Smart Globe

http://youtu.be/_naWDJDim3k

 

Classroom Activities:

Since geography is more then just the physical landscape these activities will cover everything from counties and capitals to the culture and how different places live. Since a classroom would probably only have one Smart Globe to share you could make stations where your students would research using books, the computer, magazines, and the Smart Globe. This type of work is much more student centered making them responsible for their own learning. One assignment would be to have your students pick a country and find human and physical characteristics of their country. They could expand on this by discussing and journaling/blogging about how humans have had an influence on the physical geography around them. This way they are learning important vocabulary while expanding their knowledge about the world around them.
Another cool assignment would be to have the students take the research they had done on their country of choice and write a postcard or letter as if they were in that country and writing home to a friend. This postcard would have requirements like to mention the weather, the people, the physical geography, and something that they personally thought was interesting. 
In your classroom you could also do a unit on one content like Africa for example assign groups of students to countries. Each pair or group would make a scale map of their country pointing out capitals, rivers, mountains, languages, and food. Once everyone in the class has completed their country the class would put all their countries together like a big puzzle on the wall and watch as the content becomes whole. The Smart Globe would be a key resource to helping students to see the spatial orientation of our world while having easy access to information that they may actually find interesting. This tool helps students to become the motivators of their own learning.


Standards:
STANDARD 1:
Students know how to use and construct maps, globes, and other geographic tools to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.
1.1 Students know how to use maps, globes, and other geographic tools to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.
STANDARD 2:
Students know the physical and human characteristics of places, and use this knowledge to define and study regions and their patterns of change.
2.1 Students know the physical and human characteristics of places.
STANDARD 5:
Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
5.1 Students know how human actions modify the physical environment.

 

Resources:

 

http://www.mindware.com/p/Smart-Globe/32167

 

http://www.worldglobes.com/educational-globes/interactive/245+250+4292878793.cfm

 

http://www.smarthome.com/19381/Smart-Globe/p.aspx

 

http://www.squidoo.com/globes-for-kids

 

http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeassess/documents/OSA/standards/geogrphy.pdfhttp://www.lessonplanet.com/search?keywords=geography&media=lesson&_kk=geography%20lesson%20plans&_kt=9c0267a3-c6c6-4d69-b2ed-ceba0a26e7f0&gclid=CIOhzNSlwrACFQgUKgodW3DYkA

 

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