To model the writing process in the literacy lesson we do something called shared writing and this week we used Google Earth as a platform for this. We are currently studying Dracula and we looked at Mina Murray’s journey to track Jonathan Harker her fiance. She travelled from Hull to Hamburg and through Europe to Budapest, there are obvious geographic uses of GE but we also used the placemarks to write her diary entries as she left England behind and ventured into the wilds of Transylania.
The children were enthralled and it just gave the writing that little bit more purpose – they then went off and wrote some similar emotions as she travelled.