Implementation of Google Earth as a tool to improve the skills of high school students in a school of agricultural specialty

Abstract

As an alternative to modernize the agricultural specialty offered at the technical secondary education level of the Bolívar Rural Development Concentration (CDR), a pedagogical activity is designed and carried out with eleventh grade students that includes the use of the Google Earth tool to carry out activities related to the measurement of lengths and areas on the ground, as well as to georeference these areas and determine the height above sea level, topography aspects, among others. The process is accomplished starting from a practice in the field without any specialized equipment that allows understanding the level of complexity of the area survey task; then the download and exploration of the free Google Earth software is carried out. With this implementation it was possible to demonstrate how a free access and easy-to-use ICT tool can provide answers to the needs or tasks of agricultural production.