Around the World in 80 Minutes
Overview
Use Google Expedition Kits to explore various places around the world!
Program Plan
Around the World in 80 Minutes
Audience: 3rd-6th grade
Length of program: 1.5 hours
Introduction (20 mins)
- Introduce self
- Introduce program: Welcome to our Around the World in 80 minutes program
- We are going to travel the world and visit lots of cool places.
- Where are some of the places you have traveled?
- Let kids give some answers
- Probe if necessary about different options
- Today, we are going to travel all around the world
- Use Google Maps to point out each location we’re going to
- Have map set so you can see as much of each continent as possible
- Point out each location
- What are some things that might be different when we get to these places?
- Do you think they’ll all speak the same language?
- Food
- Clothes
- How they go to school
- What they do for fun?
- Read: This is How We Do It
London (25 mins)
- Our first stop today is London, England
- Get in your plane seat, prepare for your 7 hour flight
- Woohoo, now we’re in England!
- Does anyone know what language they speak in England?
- English!
- What do you think their most popular sport is?
- Football (soccer)
- Rugby
- Use Google Earth
- Show Big Ben
- Big Ben is the nickname for the clock tower
- It was made in 1859
- Show London Eye
- This is a giant ferris wheel
- It’s one of the tallest ferris wheels in the world
- How tall do you think it is?
- 443 ft tall
- It opened in 1999
- Buckingham Palace
- This is where the royal family live
- Who are the royal family?
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Prince Philip
- Prince William
- Prince Harry
- This is the place we’re actually going to visit. Are you guys ready?
- Use Google Expedition
- Okay, on the table behind you, stand up and walk to the table to get a pair of goggles. There are enough for everyone
- Some things to keep in mind when you are using these, it’s going to look so real, you’re going to forget where you are. So, try to stay in one place so you don’t walk into a wall or another person.
- Direct everyone to put them up to eyes, walkthrough palace stuff that we can walk through.
- When finished: Okay, go ahead and put the goggles back on the table
- Activity
- Get everyone’s attention
- Ask to sit down where they are
- Okay, now we have 10 minutes to do 2 things
- We are going to learn a traditional British hand game! And we’re going to get our photos taken in front of Buckingham Palace
- Game:
- How many of you have played a hand game like concentration before?
- This game is similar, it is called A Sailor Went to Sea
- Put people in groups and let them practice
- As you practice, I’m also going to tap some of you on the shoulder to get your photo taken, once you’re done, you can go back to practicing.
- http://funclapping.com/song-list/a-sailor-went-to-sea/
- Green Screen Photo
- As kids are playing the game, invite small groups up to get their photo taken
- After they’ve had their photo taken, stamp their passport books.
Transition
- If you can hear me…
- Ask everyone to go sit down in front of room where we started.
China (25 mins)
- Alright, we are going to fly from London to China
- Show on Google Map
- You are entering a country of 1.379 billion people
- (The United States only has 325.7 million people)
- More people speak Mandarin (a form of the Chinese language) than any other language in the world.
- It is home to one of the world’s oldest civilizations
- That means they have a very long history, and lots of historical buildings and stuff
- The Great Wall of China is 13,170.696 mi long.
- Google Earth
- Palace Museum
- Switch to Google Street View
- This was a palace for Emporers from 1430-1912
- It is almost 600 years old...can you imagine standing in a 600 year old building?
- It is now a museum, with lots of ancient Chinese artifacts inside.
- Great Wall of China
- It is 13,171 miles long
- It was built over hundreds of years to protect China from invaders.
- While some parts of it are still in good condition, a lot of it has started to fall apart.
- Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum
- Click on the picture to get the image of the terracotta army
- This is one of my favorite things to look at from China because it houses the terracotta army.
- They were put there as part of the tomb for one of the Chinese emperors.
- It is thought that they were meant to protect the emperor in the afterlife.
- Google Expedition
- Direct everyone to go back to the Google Expedition Kits
- Walk through Great Wall of China
- Activity
- Direct everyone to put back Google Expeditions, and sit down in place
- Explain that we’re going to learn a game from China as well, and take a picture at the Great wall of China
- Has anyone ever played Rock, Paper, Scissors?
- This game is actually known all around the world, in some places, people use different objects, but there are variations of it in many places.
- But, it started in China. Today, even in China, there are a lot of different versions because there are so many languages spoken in China and it’s such a big place.
- The version we’re going to play is called:
- Jiandao = rock
- Shitou = paper
- Bu = scissors
- Have kids practice saying the words, and have them written down somewhere
- In Plastic Displayer (print this out)
- Just like last time, as you play, I’m going to tap groups on the shoulder to get their picture taken on the green screen.
- Round everyone up to go sit back in front.
United Arab Emirates (25 mins)
- Do you know what language they speak?
- Arabic
- UAE is home to the city of Dubai which has the tallest building in the world
- It is called the Burj Khalifa. It is 2,722 ft tall
- People of 200 different nationalities live in UAE
- Lots of different cultures mix together here.
- They have a real dinosaur fossil in the heart of the Dubai Mall...imagine going to the mall and finding a real fossil!
- Google Earth
- Show a couple of the places, zoom in so the kids can see it better.
- Google Expeditions
- Walk kids through the Burj Khalifa
- Activity
- Pass out golf pencils and worksheets based on the first letter of their names to practice writing in Arabic
- http://www.iqragames.com/arabic-letter-formation/
Conclusion
What was your favorite place that we visited today?
Where else would you like to travel?
Show a couple of books to find more information about these places.
Materials:
- Passport template:
- https://www.studenthandouts.com/00/199807/passport-outside-cover.pdf