Bring the world into the classroom
The Google UK Schools Site offers free resources for teachers to help use Google tools in the classroom.
Working with teachers, we have developed ideas for how Google Search, Maps, Earth, Images and News
can be integrated into the curriculum to help bring subjects such as geography, history and citizenship to
life.
The site offers:
- Lesson plans and student activity sheets for primary (cross-curricular) and secondary (geography, history and citizenship)
- A discussion group to share ideas on how to use Google in the classroom with other teachers
- A comprehensive guide on how to use Google Earth, including when carrying out fieldwork
- Links to information on how to use Google tools
- Tutorials for students on how to search well
- Useful “gadgets” for teachers that you can add to your Google homepage such as the latest news on education and schools
- Links to other Google projects for schools
Contact us: schools-uk@google.com
Google site for educators in the US: www.google.com/educators
Featured Classroom Idea
Chocolate and fair trade »
This lesson helps students to understand the production, transport and consumption of food around the world, using chocolate as an example.
Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada »
This lesson helps students to find out about the various factors that are attributed to the defeat of the Armada using Google Search, Images, Earth and Maps
Global Issues »
In this lesson students use Google to research information on global issues, specifically refugees and the effects of military conflicts, as illustrated by a case study of the current situation in Sudan.
Exploring your area »
This activity allows students to investigate their local area. They learn where they are in the world and identify and describe a range of physical and human features of their locality.
Natural disasters »
This lesson compares responses to natural disasters in MEDCs and LEDCs. Part of the lesson uses Google Earth as a tool for visualising how plate tectonics work and where the different plate boundaries can be found.
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