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Cole C. Nelson Personal Technology Project Lesson plan Google Earth Tour: Ancient Rome  This lesson will meet Standard 2-Students will comprehend the contributions of classical civilizations. Objective 4-Evaluate the significance of classical sculpture, architecture, and performing arts of the Utah state core curriculum. ** Anticipatory Set ** -Recap the previous lesson about the architecture of ancient Rome. Show the students the tour video I made of Rome using Google Earth. This will give them a good example of what they will be doing for their project. Explain that this is what the students will be creating. **- **Demonstrate how a lot of the Ancient Roman Architecture is still in good condition today. Show how Rome looks in today’s world. By creating a tour on Google Earth the students will be able to visit Rome without really going there. Also, this lesson will show how Roman Architecture has influenced American architecture. ** Input ** Take students to the computer lab. The lab teacher will be helping the students learn how to use Google earth. After instruction, give the students about half an hour just to become familiar with Google Earth. How to find buildings and navigate around them will be important. Also teach them how to record a tour.  **__Creating a tour on Google Earth:__**
 * Objective **

1. Click the camera icon on the toolbar right above the map. This will display a record and audio record button in the bottom left corner. 2. When you are ready to record click the record button. It will record every action that you make. It also keeps track of how long the tour is. 3. When you are finished with your tour simply click on the record button again. 4. Save your tour Guided Practice -Assignment is to create a 3-4 min tour video of Ancient Rome. -Video includes the following: · Begin video from Provo, Utah · Fly over to Rome and locate the following pieces of architecture. · Colosseum · Arch of Constantine · Pantheon · Finally, fly over to Washington D.C. and locate the Jefferson Memorial · End show
 * make sure to get an overhead view and a ground level frontal view of each
 * This is to show how the Jefferson Memorial looks like the Parthenon.

Closure- **review Roman architecture Here is the artifact

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