Add a Geography Component to your Language Arts Program
Interested in making more of your classroom reading time? You love using Janie's books to help your students learn more about history and the people of the United States? Well, here is just one more way to make the most of your learning time and help your students turn-on, tune-in and want to learn even more.
Well, here it is! Go to earth.google.com download the Google Earth program onto you computer and bring the world to your students. (Make sure after you have installed the "free" program that you take the tutorials under "help" to learn how to quickly "fly" over your state, the Great Lakes, the nation, and the world.
How to use this program in conjunction with Janie's books? Well, since Janie uses real historical settings, make note of the locations mentioned in her stories, look them up on Google Maps and take your students on the great Niagara River and look over the falls, travel the Grand River or follow the trails of the Under Ground Railroad. Its up to you just how much learning can take place with this wonderful tool. Download this "free" software today and find yet another way to use Janie's novels in your classroom!