Look for these spooky Abandoned locations on Google Maps and explore their wonder on Street View.
Quality worksheets that prompt the student to use the navigation tools on Google Maps and explore a bit closer to answer the questions. There are a whole lot of man-made structures out there that have been left to rot or are waiting for a new life. Students look closely at the remains and complete some exercises to reflect on their investigations.
8 Locations in all are identified, plus another dozen or so that students can search for in their own time.
Lonely fun park wiped out by Hurricane Katrina
Desolate industrial island
Massive empty car plant
Rusting and bogged locomotives from another era
Overgrown mill house in the middle of a busy town
… and more
Very original and includes an answer key.
I’d be really disappointed if anyone is not happy with these packs, so if that’s you, please get back to me and your money will be very happily refunded. I’d really like some feedback too, so all comments most welcome.
Six challenging activities for Middle School students to discover the reality of Chernobyl today.
Use the various tools available on Google Maps, Google Street View and Google Earth Pro to complete the tasks.
Instructions and examples are provided so all worksheets are self-guiding.
Table of contents include:
How Close Can You Get to the Nuclear Power Plant?
How Far Away from Other Places is Chernobyl?
Going Back in Time at Chernobyl
How Big is The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Sarcophagus?
What’s Left Behind in Abandoned Chernobyl and Surrounds?
The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
The ability to speak in public is one of the hardest things that anybody can endure, but it is so much easier if you can adopt some powerful techniques that others use to make their speech memorable and at least survive on the stage.
Young people should be given plenty of practice time to present a speech and this unit of work helped the kids in my class adopt some strategies use in their speeches.
This pack consists of quality worksheets that review some famous speeches and shows the techniques that the speaker used to be persuasive and powerful.
The content includes:
- Analyzing Donald Trump’s acceptance speech
- Learning about Alliteration in speeches
- Practising the use of Tricolons
- Understanding the Power of Speech Metaphors
- Ways to use Repetition in Speeches
- Reviewing Inch by Inch, by Al Pacino
- Reviewing Queen Elizabeth I’s Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, 1588
- Discovering the power of The Gettysburg Address
- Counting the metaphors in the ‘I Have a Dream Speech’, by Martin Luther King
The pack also includes a bonus Rubric that can be used to analyze the effectiveness of any speech.
32 pages in all, including an Answer Key
Great value Activity Book of worksheets and activities using Google Maps, Google Earth and Google Street View.
Covers a wide range of topics, subject areas and skills. All self-guiding, challenging and very original.
This is a combination of all my various Google Maps packs and bundles, compiled into an updated and attractive single book of activities with an answer key.
Invest in this book, download and just share or print off whatever you need, whenever you need it.
Printable maps with a simple clue that students use to determine what country is outlined on the sheet.
The clue might be a longitude or latitude, a key city, or a geographical feature.
The task is simple, but the activity is challenging.
Students can also use the shape of the country to help in working out the name of the country.
The worksheets have an answer key at the end. There are 22 maps in all. The maps shown here are samples only.
Great worksheets for Middle School students based around the story of Easter and everything connected with Easter (Easter Eggs - chocolate and non-chocolate!, Easter Island, the Easter sites of significance, and more.)
Use Google Maps to complete the worksheets
Learning objectives include:
• Ability to calculate distances in Google Maps
• Able to load a database to Google Maps
• Ability to insert Placemarker information in Google Maps
• Ability to use creativity and imagination in developing a fantasy island
• Ability to construct a map with all key features
• Ability to locate information in Google Maps using coordinates
• Ability to apply some simple knowledge of Excel.
All the activities were great fun in my classroom, and the students could progress through them at their own pace and without too much direction.
26 pages
Answer key included
Duration 1-2 weeks
Note: Sample pages only shown here, full pack of 26 pages of worksheets will be available for download after purchase
10 simple actions that anyone can take to overcome the fear of public speaking.
Overcoming that fear helps people stand out at work, take charge at family events and be upfront at any school celebration.
Everyone will be thankful that it is you standing there speaking. Your life will be changed when you have the confidence to speak to any audience at any time.
Download this 38 page manual of tips, actions and templates that will help you speak with confidence.
I’d be disappointed if anyone does not feel that this pack suits their needs. If it doesn’t, please get in touch and your money will be returned - no issue at all.
One of the most common events that will happen to anybody who enters work life, will be to participate in meetings.
It is important for Middle School students to start learning how to conduct themselves at meetings, and to learn about meeting procedures.
This pack of worksheets includes activities on:
creating an agenda
note taking
being a chairperson
taking minutes
proposing a motion
Have fun conducting your own class meetings once these worksheets have been completed.
I’d be really disappointed if anyone is not happy with these packs, so if that’s you, please get back to me and your money will be very happily refunded. I’d really like some feedback too, so all comments most welcome.
Simple single A3 information sheet that students reference to best use Google Maps, Google Earth and Google Earth Pro.
Each of these applications is free to use and easy to access from any device.
This info sheet explains the differences between the applications, shows how to access the various functions, and expands on all available menus.
Simple explanations that will enhance any Google Maps or Google Earth user.
I’d be disappointed if anyone does not feel that this download suits. If it’s not suitable, please get in touch and your money will be returned - no issue at all.
Great Value bundle combining two popular packs focussing on public speaking, the techniques used by others and the process in writing and presenting a speech.
Each worksheet in each pack has engaging activities for the Middle School student to start to master one of the most important skills that any adult needs in their private and public lives - no matter what career they pursue.
Ove 50 pages of tips, ideas and activities for the student to self-guide their way to speaking mastery.
PLUS, a free fun pack is included to check on those speech trip-ups that will get in the way of any good speech. Nothing worse than saying the wrong thing, when you really meant something else. The effect can be catastrophic.
It is important for any student to understand the difference between the two types of humour - one that hurts and offends, compared to the type that makes you feel good, energised and relaxed, and there are no victims that feel bad.
These ten worksheets focus on helping Middle School students identify the difference between the types of humour.
The worksheets analyse the Sarcastic Wit, the Nit Wit, and the Clowning Wit.
I have found that teaching humour in the classroom is such fun - of course - and it can have relevance to many parts of the curriculum.
Answer key included
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” - Groucho Marx
“The problem with common sense is that most people are morons.” - The Sarcasm Society
Sarcasm can be witty, but in the school environment it can be hurting. Teach your students to recognise sarcasm and to be careful with its use.
This bundle includes a great introductory Full Quality narrated slidedeck that introduces the topic of sarcasm.
The slidedeck includes:
- samples from Groucho Marx,
- how sarcasm can hurt others,
- some samples for students to test their sarcasm detector, and
- some examples for sarcastic body language.
The bundle also includes a starter pack of humour worksheets centred around the topic of Sarcasm.
Topics include:
- Irony v Sarcasm
- Sarcasm Detector
- Sarcasm as Verbal Bullying
- Groucho Marx and his form of Sarcasm
- Comparing Sarcasm with being Sincere
- Plotting types of Sarcasm on the Nasty v Nice scale, and the Funny v not Funny scale
… and more
Great fun for the classroom, but this pack also relates to the topic of emotional bullying and how some words that seem funny to others can impact a victim’s feelings.
Telling a joke to a group of people is a real art - and no-one ever teaches us how to do it! These worksheets explore some key aspects of joke telling and they can be great fun in any middle classroom.
I suggest setting the ground rules with the class right at the beginning so that any inappropriate material is not used as a joke… but that never really happened in any of the lessons that I conducted with my students, so hopefully it is a non-issue for your class as well.
This pack includes 12 pages of worksheets plus an answer key showing some suggested answers to the questions about jokes.
Headings in the pack include:
- Defining a joke
- Putting on your humor hat
- What is the best joke you have ever heard?
- Know your audience
- Joke types
- How to write your own joke
- How to deliver a joke
I really enjoy working with humor in my classes and I have about a dozen packs of worksheets that worked in my class in my TES store.
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I’d be really disappointed if anyone is not happy with these packs, so if that’s you, please get back to me and your money will be very happily refunded. I’d really like some feedback too, so all comments most welcome.
Great bundle value with 5 packs all related to using Google Maps in the classroom. Each pack has student self-directed worksheets that are solved by using Google Maps.
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Google Maps Worksheets
Activity Sheets for the Middle School students. Great fun solving problems using Google Maps(and Google Earth). Simple instructions but challenging activities.
I have found that the students in my class need very little instruction to complete the tasks, so long as they understand the Google Maps tools.
Google account is not required - just access to the Google Maps online.
Table of Contents
1. Creating a Travelling Distance Chart
2. Solve the Riddle
3. A Different Type of Easter Egg
4. Fantasy Island
5. Landmarks Around the World
6. Cruising the Seas
7. All about Continents
8. The Earth’s Grid System
9. From Pegman’s Point of View
10. Time & Weather Clues
11. Sites with a View
12. Home Sweet Home
13. Street View Safari
14. Who Am I?
15. National Parks
16. Your Place
17. A Mission for Agent Pegman
18. Things to do on Google Earth
19. Oddities on Google Earth
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Google Maps Math Problems
This is a pack of worksheets with Math problems students can do on Google Maps. The problems cover a range of activities, but my class particularly liked the activity based on Disneyland where they had to zoom in on Street View as well as use the Earth function to mathematically calculate the number of car parks in a particular structure at Disneyland, and also calculate the commercial profitability of the car park.
This is a multi-skilled pack for Middle School students and those who have bought my other packs over the years (thank you all!) you will know that each sheet is well laid out, nicely presented and encourages the student to work independently on each activity.
As well as the Disneyland activity, the pack includes:
- designing a road trip
- searching for mathematical street names in a particular location(we found more than 10 names!)
- researching odd mathematical locations
- measuring and comparing distance
- and more
10 pages of worksheets, PLUS an answer key.
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Google Street View Worksheets
24 pages of worksheets for upper primary/lower secondary students using Google's fabulous Street View, newly updated with Answer Key and further instructions for Agent Pegman.
Activities include:
- looking for animals on safari
- looking for unusual landmarks
- perform some exemplary spy work
- visit some very obscure locations
- stand right in the middle of Stonehenge, Legoland, Warwick Castle gardens and travel the slopes of Whistler
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Easter Fun with Google Maps
Great worksheets for Middle School students based around the story of Easter and everything connected with Easter (Easter Eggs - chocolate and non-chocolate!, Easter Island, the Easter sites of significance, and more.)
Use Google Maps to complete the worksheets
Learning objectives include:
• Ability to calculate distances in Google Maps
• Able to load a database to Google Maps
• Ability to insert Placemarker information in Google Maps
• Ability to use creativity and imagination in developing a fantasy island
• Ability to construct a map with all key features
• Ability to locate information in Google Maps using coordinates
• Ability to apply some simple knowledge of Excel.
All the activities were great fun in my classroom, and the students could progress through them at their own pace and without too much direction.
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Placemarkers in Google Maps
Representing data on a map is an important form of communicating information to the reader. Information graphics need to provide the right information in the clearest format possible. Google Maps provides an easy facility to display data for any reader, and anybody can use this facility to upload their information.
An excellent introduction to this topic would be for the teacher and students to explore the range of ways that data can be represented on a map. Different ways include heat maps, geographic stretching of continents, icons and symbols, colours and shades, bar graphs, and interactive maps.
The lessons and activities in this unit of work are for the lower and middle secondary years of schooling and focus on how to add Placemarkers and how to bulk upload more than one data point to show a broader range of data.
Simple instructions and clear screenshots, along with relevant student activities make this unit of work self-instructing for every student.
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100% Money Back guarantee - if there is anything at all about this pack that disappoints or was not as expected, please get back to me and your investment will be completely refunded - no issue at all.
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