Geotagging

This is a lesson created for Second graders. The lesson introduces the students to geotagging pictures. The students will be responsible for doing all the required work to share with other students in New York, Kansas, and California.

Content Area: Social Studies, ELA

Materials/Resources: Computer Lab (one computer for each student), digital camera, class Flickr account.  

Learning Objectives: Students will learn about our region (the south, specifically SC), as well as other regions (New York, Kansas, and California).

Overview:

1.      After completing a unit on the regions (South, North, Midwest, and West) of the US, students will recall information attained in class about the regions and states discussed in class.

2.      Students will then be taken to the computer lab to do research on our Region, the South, but focus on our State, SC. After we have gained information about SC we will go back to the classroom to complete a class Google doc that explains what we know about the south already, but incorporate the facts from specifically SC.

3.      We will then be taking a field trip to our Capital, Columbia.

4.      While here in Columbia, the students will be taking pictures of anything that they think may be worthwhile to include in our Google Doc to share with the other states that shows SC as a southern state.

5.      Once we return back to the school, the students will be introduced to geotagging using Flickr.

6.      The students will then be taken to the computer lab to upload 3 of their pictures into our class group on Flickr making sure to tag it with our class name and also place it on the map where it belongs.

7.      As a class we will look at all the pictures taken and chose 5 that we really like and place into our Goggle Doc to be shared with the other states.

8.      While we are doing all the above, other educators that are friends and family members in the states of New York, Kansas, and California will be conducting the same type of research with students who are from those areas.

9.      We will all be sharing our information through the Goggle Docs that we create.

Lesson Question: What is the information about the south that we know that we can apply to SC to share with other states/regions of the US?

Management:

Teacher’s Role: The class will be taken to the computer lab.  The teacher will be walking around the room observing the children and answering any questions that may arise.

Student’s Role: The students will need to actively participate in researching SC in the computer lab. They will also be responsible for taking pictures when we go to Columbia and then uploading 3 pictures correctly by tagging with class name and placing it on the map. They will also be included in picking out the 5 pictures that will be inserted into our Goggle Doc for the other states to see.