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“Sé tu propio GPS y ve a todas partes: practica una habilidad única para la vida”

Completado por 133 alumnos
Edades 9-13
Clase única en vivo
A los participantes se les presentará un método para visualizar lugares lejanos y cercanos, que luego serán mapeados. Los estudiantes aprenderán a “ver” mapas en cualquier superficie: una pantalla, una mano, un cuerpo, una mesa, un piso, un patio, un patio de recreo.
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(82 opiniones)

Videoconferencias en vivo
Se reúne una vez
1-4 alumnos por clase
45 min

Qué está incluido

1 reunión en vivo
45 minutos horas presenciales

Experiencia de clase

Nivel de inglés: desconocido
Grado de EE. UU. 4 - 7
Be a Human Compass and Know Everywhere. 

What’s north, south, east and west of you? What cities, states, rivers, mountains are between you and a place across the country? Do you see maps everywhere: on your hand, tabletop, floor, yard, playground or park? Can you draw accurate, attractive maps from memory?

Picture this parents: students learn a life skill to orient themselves in the world one place at a time. My “Be Your Own GPS” stand-up/move about method helps students to orient themselves wherever they are with or without a device. Soon they are mastering the ability to “know” where they are in relation to any other place, locally or globally. Thereafter, students can translate these “visualized” places into physical maps.

These lessons explore the idea that any surface can be visualized as a map: a hand, the upper torso, a screen, table top, floor, yard, and neighborhood. In this way, students widen their horizons going from local communities to states/provinces, regions, nations, continents and even the planet.

By learning how any given place relates to others. A student from the U.S. state of Maine, for instance, can visualize, walk off and/or map the states/regions, major urban centers, bodies of water, mountain chains one crosses to reach California.

Families can practice the human GPS method by quizzing each other, wherever they are, to identify places, near or far, on various points of the compass. 

Of course, phones and cars equipped with GPS systems and compasses are useful for initial orientation purposes. Ask one another, which way do we go from here to there without consulting those devices. What direction will we go? What landmarks will we pass?

Parents can expect such useful follow-up exercises and suggestions to extend what their student is learning in the Global Awareness Lab.

Metas de aprendizaje

Students will have a solid knowledge of the cardinal and ordinal directions and how to use these compass points to orient themselves to places near and far. 

Participants will also be introduced to a method of using their awareness of compass points to visualize, move about and later transpose to physical maps of places locally to globally. Practiced and mastered this becomes an invaluable life skill

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Lista de útiles escolares
Several sheets of blank paper, pencil, markers etc. Not required but useful a map of the USA and a compass.
Recursos externos
Los estudiantes no necesitarán utilizar ninguna aplicación o sitio web más allá de las herramientas estándar de Outschool.

Conoce al profesor

Se unió el April, 2020
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Perfil
Experiencia y certificaciones del docente
I’m Tom (the Global Guy) Hughes, a retired educator who has taught every grade from first to 11th on three continents, starting as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Iran teaching English as a Foreign Language to high schoolers. But mostly I’ve concentrated on upper elementary, ten year olds, plus or minus. I’ve a Master’s in Education, specializing in individualized instruction strategies. Back in the 1980s, I was one of the Klingenstein Foundation’s “Independent School Teachers of the Year.”

As a retired classroom teacher and former homeschooling parent, I sympathize with students, their families and teachers in this unprecedented time in our global history. We are all in this together. That’s why I want to offer online, interactive programs on my specialty, global awareness/geography. The fact that we are so connected allows the pandemic to take hold, yet also provides us electronic tools with which to carry on.

Back in the 1970s teaching at the International School of Brussels in Belgium, I started with my students The Potato Museum, a unique institution that has featured in major exhibitions in Washington, DC and Ottawa, Canada. Check out our YouTube channel: "The Potato Museum Show." It's fun, informative and free. https://www.youtube.com/@thepotatomuseum

My wife, Meredith, an author and journalist, and I collaborate on many projects including The Food Museum Online, as well as the presentation of food history and geography-themed educational programs in schools, libraries and many other venues. I’m the author of several books, a couple written with my wife. Visit my Amazon author page.

My specialty has been devising and implementing unique programs about world cultures and geography as they relate to past and present geopolitics. An avid, accomplished traveler, (all continents except Antarctica,) I engage my students with artifacts collected from around the world to get across important concepts about our planet’s peoples and places. In addition to using my extensive collection of globes and maps, I’ve always employed folk art objects, toys, puppets, masks, dolls, games, puzzles, tools, music and video clips in my teaching. These include, to name just a few, a Basque pelota mitt, a Brazilian capoeira berimbau, an Iranian samovar, Nepalese singing bowls, Japanese kimonos, an Australian boomerang, Russian nesting dolls and models of American planes, trains, buses, and streetcars.

My interests beyond teaching and travel include gardening, tai chi, golf, skiing, trail bike riding, flying kites and learning to juggle, to groom my dog, Tallahassee, play the ukulele and comprehend Chinese “elephant” chess. Besides comprehensive collections of items associated with the history of the world’s foods, I maintain collections of stamps, coins, currency, postcards, sports cards, vintage board games, souvenir t-shirts and caps. My library of travel and geography-related books and periodicals numbers in the thousands, including an almost complete set of National Geographic Magazines dating back to the early 1900s.

As Tom the Global Guy, I provide interactive, global awareness, aka geography, programs for kids (referred to as Geographers or Cartographers) depending on interest, ages 8-14. I offer onetime introductory sessions which can be followed by weekly lessons.

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