Thanks to Jason Flom I've just learned about a Google Earth-based resource that allows you to compare the current size of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill with the size of major cities and or your hometown. The Gulf Coast Oil Spill Map was developed by Google engineer Paul Rademacher. The map uses the Google Earth Browser Plugin to enable users to compare the size of the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico with the size of their cities or towns.
Applications for Education
The Gulf Coast Oil Spill Map is a great visual tool that puts the size of the oil slick into a perspective that students can understand. When I used it, saw that the oil slick is about the same size as the county I live in.
Here are some related items that may be of interest to you:
First-hand Accounts of the Oil Spill's Impact
More Google Maps About Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
Tracking the Oil Spill - Interactive Maps
Monday, May 10, 2010
Compare Oil Spill's Size to Your Town's Size
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Hi! I’m an Instructional Design and Technology student at Walden University and our class assignment was to locate blogs that we feel will assist us in our job or that provide information to us in the Instructional Design Field. I found your blog and believe it will be very useful to the teachers in my building. This is an excellent post for teachers to use with current events. The Gulf Coast Oil Spill Map is a great technology tool to enhance the teacher lesson plan in the classroom. Student can increase their technology skills while investigating this current event topic. This post also showcases Google earth. Seeing how Google earth is used in this lesson may increase the teachers knowledge and give them ideas of other ways to implement Google earth into other lesson plans. I believe that students will also find this technology application interesting. Many teachers have problems with keeping their students engaged in the learning process and this is a great resource to help prevent this problem. In my class at Walden we have been discussing different learning theories. This lesson plan allows students to look at the “real world” as they work toward succeeding in life.
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