Summary
Watt, Windy, and Frank take a helicopter tour and see City Island's landmarks from above. Buildings they walk past every day look completely different from the sky. A good warm-up for reading maps and aerial photos.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Three quick questions to run after the short.
- What did the city look like from the air?
- Which landmarks could you recognize from above?
- What would our school look like from a helicopter?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: skyline, landmark, aerial.
Try it: Draw our school playground the way it would look from directly above.