Using Google Earth in SS

Today my kindergarten students used the Google Earth app to explore our world!  Mrs. D'Elia showed us how to find several key locations and introduced us to basic map skills and vocabulary (which ties in perfectly with the K social studies map unit).  We were even able to find our school and other surrounding places. My kids loved the 3D model of the Earth and being able to "zoom" in from our continent, to our country, to our state, to our city and finally to our neighborhood and school. Google Earth is definitely for students to explore! 

Thanks to Miriam Perez and Caroline Page, I successfully used Linoit to brainstorm goods and services for Social Studies.  Afterwards, I was inspired to find out more about QR code activities.  I found this great set of QR code equations to help my students choose appropriate addition strategies.  I also found a website to create a QR code treasure hunt-I have created some codes, but am still working on the idea of using them in a more novel way.  Here is the link:  http://www.classtools.net/QR/

3rd Grade Social Studies Activity - Settlers and Natives

Ms. Shearer provided her students with a topic and had half of them research the settler's  perspective, while the other half focused on the natives perspective. The class then discussed the event with each half of the class representing their perspective.