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The Great Pumpkin Harvest

Barbaree

October 24, 2011

ArcGIS Explorer online, elementary, English, GIS in Education, halloween, high school, math, middle school, pumpkins, science, social studies

It just wouldn’t be fall without pumpkins and great stories. One of my favorite stories is the one made famous by Charles Schultz. Linus van Pelt tries to convince his friends that The Great Pumpkin “rises out of the pumpkin patch that is the most sincere.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiSIQzwIPzQ Another website with good information about the story is http://peanuts.wikia.com/wiki/It’s_the_Great_Pumpkin,_Charlie_Brown.… Read more
Lit Trips and Author’s Homes

Barbaree

November 5, 2009

ArcGIS Explorer 900, English, GIS in Education, google earth, google littrips, language arts, literature

If you haven’t stopped by www.googlelittrips.com lately, then you might need to revisit! For those who are new to this fine resource, Jerome Berg has a collection of journeys that open nicely in Google Earth or ArcGIS Explorer. In addition, they now have 3D models of Author’s homes created in Sketch Up and placed where… Read more