Concept lessons will use Google Earth to present math topics, such as rates or scientific notation in unique ways.
Project-Based Learning activities will include lessons that will require the collaborative efforts of students in pairs or groups. These lessons may be of a longer duration and require additional outsource materials.
Measurement lessons will make extensive use of the ruler tool in Google Earth to accomplish problem solving activities.
Exploratory lessons will follow non-traditional math topics such as fractals, topology, or modern geometry.
A growing body of academic research supports the use of project-based learning in schools as a way to engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative learning skills, and improve test scores. Those benefits are enhanced when technology is used in a meaningful way in the projects.
Advocates also say that the availability of technology that can call up the knowledge of the world's best thinkers with the click of a mouse, that can graph in two seconds what once took hours, and that can put scientific instrumentation in a pocket-sized computer further argues for moving away from century-old models of instruction.