SketchUp

Google SketchUp
Google SketchUp is a 3D modeling program that can be downloaded free from Google. Students can use it to recreate historical sites, build their dream house, model their school or neighborhood or create a model for an number of subjects. Models can be filled items from the large collection in the online 3D warehouse and when finished, be placed in Google Earth. This is a great program to get students working with shape and their are plenty of mathematical applications for it. We have been using it in conjunction with English, in the 8th grade, for students to create model rooms and houses based descriptions they have written of a room as a literary character's mind.


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**Useful Links**

SketchUp Education SketchUP for Educators Lesson Plans ABCICT SketchUp Galleries 2011-12 2010-11 Augmented Reality and SketchUP ABCICT SketchUp Lessons ABCICT SketchUp 2 Lessons || **A Video Walk Through of a Project**

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