TPAK for Tour

• What is the content you’ll be using in your lesson?

The content for this lesson is focused towards the U.S. History II class. Standard 7, Objective 2 which says, "Examine the impact World War II had on the American home front." Although we will be visiting various locations in the tour and having class discussions that do not always focus on the American home front, I believe that this enrichment activity to be important because it allows for higher levels of thinking as they take past events and apply them to more recent events. It also gives them an idea of what went on and where during WW 2.

• What is the pedagogy you’ll be using and why is it a good fit with the content?

The students will be observing the locations and participate in group work (as they discuss the presented questions with a classmate) as well as participate in class discussions. I think that class discussions are important especially in an enrichment activity such as this one because it allows the students to express their thoughts about a specific topic (and this is assuming that I have created a safe environment for my students, of course.) Ideally I would have a number of computers for students to work in small groups so they are able to look and think about the questions, however, worst case scenario would have the entire class looking together on the projector while I manipulated it all from my personal computer.

• What is the technology you’ll be using and why is it a good fit with the content and pedagogy?

I will be using Google Earth. Contained within Google Earth I will use the panoramio took in order to look at photos of the various sites. This is a good fit because the Earth portion will show the general location on the world of the places that we will be looking at. Then, it goes in close up so we will be able to look at the geographic area and actually view real pictures of the locations.