Virtual Tour Plan

Location	Activity-Journals	Google Earth Content
Mojave Desert	Have the students write a journal about what they would do if they lived in this desert.	image overlay
Wetland-Okefenokee Swamp	Have the students write a persuasive letter to the Mayor to encourage him to save the wetland.	path
Mountains-Yost Utah-Idaho	Have the students write their experience in the mountains or if they have never been have them write about what they would do if they went there.	polygon
Tropics-Madagascar	Have the students write about their experience as a tropic animal in Madagascar.

The Content is 3rd Grade Social Studies Standard 1 Objective 2 indicator A. Describe the major world ecosystems (i.e. desert, plain, tropic, tundra, grassland, mountain, forest, wetland).
The pedagogy is writing journals to fit with each ecosystem and this is a good fit with the content because it allows the student to inquire and investigate enough about the ecosystem in order to write about it in a more personal way.
The technology I will be using is Google Earth and it is a good fit with the content and pedagogy because the students can see the places they are learning about and view images that will help them write about the different ecosystems. This will inspire them to learn more about the ecosystems, and it is an intriguing application that the students will be very interested in.