A VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP
To Schools in Different Countries
Around the World
Ghana
United States of America
China
By Janet Yancey – Geog 642
Geography Teacher Summer Institute II
First Summer Session 2009
Sit back in your seats and enjoy
the trip!
Essential Question
To what extent are places different in
culture and activity?
Geography Standard Three: Students will develop an
understanding of the diversity of human culture and the
unique nature of places.
Essential Question
How might differences and similarities
among these regions result in
connections between them?
Geog Standard 4: Students will use the concepts of place and
region to explain simple patterns of connections between and
among places (schools) across the country and the world.
WORLD MAP 3rd Stop
China
2nd Stop
USA
1st Stop
Ghana
First Stop:
Ghana is a country that is located
in West Africa
Ghana is located in the West Africa Region
where it’s a warm humid tropical climate.
The terrain consist mostly of low plains.
A Ghanaian School
The Akwansa Kokodo
Primary School is located
in Mankessin, Ghana.
What type of neighborhood do you
think they live in? How do they get to
school?
What is this school like? Does it look like yours?
What are the similarities and difference you see?
What do you see here? Do they look like
the ones you have in your school?
What is
this?
What are these?
What are the things in this classroom
made of? Do they look like yours?
Do you have these things in your classroom?
How are they alike? How are they different?
Do these walls look like your classroom walls?
What about the floors?
What do you see here?
Do your desk look like these?
How many students sit at each desk in your
school?
Do your windows, door ways, and ceilings look like these?
What type of weather do you think they have here?
This is a student walking home from school. Do you carry
your book bag like this? What similarities and differences
can you see in this picture?
This school has received some
supplies for the students.
The students are holding up some of
the new pencils they just received.
Second Stop
THE UNITED STATES
This Area
A school in the United States
Can you identify this School?
Yes this is Southern Elementary School.
Your school! In what ways is it similar and
different from the other places?
Southern Elementary School is located
in the USA- Northeast region, known as
New Castle, Delaware.
DELAWARE
Newcastle
A roadway near the school.
In New Castle Delaware, most of the
land is very flat.
What do you see? Did you see all these
things in the Ghana school?
What do you see here? Did they have
them in Ghana? How do they differ?
What do you see that is similar and
different in these pictures?
Look at these walls and chalkboards.
Do they look like the ones in Ghana?
How do the differ?
What type of flooring do you see?
What else do you see?
What type of flooring is this?
A Math Investigations Lesson
A Math Investigations Lesson
Third Stop
CHINA
Shaanxi Province
CHINA
Hou Wan Elementary
School is located in rural
Ziyang County in the
Shaanxi province of China.
Shaanxi Province is one of China's ... central Provinces lying in the upper
North-East of the country, adjacent and west of Hebei Province with the National
Capital Beijing. Shaanxi Province can generally be seen as follows - In the North and
North-West a Ring of Mountains encloses ..... Most of the North is Mountainous
or Hilly. In the South the situation is the complete opposite,
Hou Wan Elementary School
The View From Hou Wan Elementary School
What do you see?
This is the Path to Hou Wan
Elementary School
These people are dropping off the books,
activities, and games that the Library Project
donated to the Hou Wan Elementary School.
They’ve just received a bookshelf, globe,
plant, and 400 Chinese language
children’s books for grades 1-3.
What other things do you see here? How
are they alike or different from your
classroom?
Do your desk look like these?
What about the walls, floors, etc.?
Remember this is a one room school. With one
teacher who is also the principal. Teaching
grade 1 through 3. There are only 17 students.
Time to go back to your school!
Welcome back…
TO SOUTHERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL