TPACK for Virtual Tour

Content:

In the sixth grade social studies standard 1, objective 4, point a, it asks to identify innovations in manmade structures over time, and their influence on meeting needs. In the standard itself, it says to analyze how the earliest civilizations created technologies and systems to meet community and personal needs. Each one of the world wonders in this virtual tour addressed needs of the community or a certain individual, like with the Taj Mahal or the Giza Pyramid. The other two sites met community needs, and all of these structures were newly created technology in architecture.

Pedagogy:

This activity calls for the students having to compare how these ancient wonders would have been built today, etc., therefore asking them to make contrasts and critically analyze. They will also make connections between the past and the present. The teacher would be helping them with guiding questions and instructions in the process.

Technology:

The students will be using Google Earth to locate these sites, as well as use the internet to research the answers to the activity questions for each one. This is a valuable skill to master for more complex research projects/reports that they will do in the future.

Virtual Tour Plan

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1. Giza Pyramid, Cairo, Egypt	Find out why it was built, and make a strategy of how you would build something like this using the modern tools we have today, as opposed to what they used back then.	Students will find this location.
2. Taj Mahal, Agra, India	Find out the history behind the construction of the Taj Majal (why and how it was built), and how many tourists it attracts to India each year. What does it have in common with the Giza Pyramid in Cairo?	Students will find this location.
3. Great Wall of China	Find out how long the wall is in miles. Then, figure out where the wall would end up if it started here in Provo and headed straight to the east.	Students will find this location; They will locate where the wall would end if it started in Provo and went eastward.
4. Colosseum, Rome, Italy	Find out what it used to be used for, and what it's used for now. If you could hold an event there, what would it be?	Students will find this location.
Details of image overlay / path / polygon:	There will be image overlays of each one of the wonders in this tour. There will also be a path that goes along the Great Wall of China, as well as one the length of that from Provo eastward.