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 * **2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Activity**
 * **Measurements**
 * **Grades** 6-9
 * **__Content and Math Topic__**:
 * Measurement (Rate and Distance formula)
 * Covers Math,Geography and Science 
 * The **instructional approach** includes teaching the students what information they need from Google Earth, how to find the information on Google Earth and where to place the information. After the students repeat the process of finding the information (like wave height and distance from epicenter), the activity sheet instructs the students on how to get the **outcome** of the overall speed of the tsunami.
 * Professional Evaluation
 * The lesson allows for students to discover and look for their own information (which would be beneficial for the geography and science portion of the content). However, once the information is compiled, the students perform a sort of "plug'n'chug" approach to get the output of speed. This is a definite weakness according the theory of discovery learning from a mathematical standpoint.
 * I, personally, would use this lesson if I were teaching a lower level "math tech" type course. This would be beneficial for those students, in my opinion, to see application of mathematical operations.
 * If I were using this lesson in an upper level math course, I would definitely emphasis the reflection questions at the end of activity sheet.[[image:googleearth.jpg]]