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Google Earth and Google Maps

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Summary of Google Maps and Google Earth in the Classroom Possibilities

Basics

Resources

Learning Activites

How do I get around?

Google Earth – How do I get around?

Google Maps – How do I get around?

Adding Photographs to Maps

Adding Photographs to Maps with Google Earth

  • Example Lesson – Tour de France
    • Other  Examples of Google Earth projects with photographs:

    Adding Photographs to Maps with Google Maps

    • Example Lesson – Virtual Community Walk
      • This map was created to allow parents to have a window into this activity and for the students to have a follow-up resource that allows them to complete their notes, finish their building sketches, etc. with this virtual walk after the actual walk.
      • Features Used – Draw a line; Add text and a photograph to a placemark; Open Google Maps file in Google Earth; Link the map to a Web site or make it, in some other way, accessible; Street View may make this type of map unnecessary
      • Tips:
        • It is easier to add content to a map in Google Maps than in Google Earth. Maps can be created in Google Maps and then saved as a KMZ file that can be opened in Google Earth;
        • Before a photograph can be added to a placemark it must have a Web address. You may need to set up a “dummy” Web site to hold your photographs;
      • Examples:

    Adding an Entire Slide Show to a Google Earth Placemark

    Adding Web Links to Maps

    Adding Web Links to Maps with Google Earth

    Adding Web Links to Maps with Google Maps

    Adding Text to Maps

    Adding Text to Maps with Google Earth

    Adding Text to Maps with Google Maps

    Adding Video to Maps

    Adding Video to Maps with Google Earth

    • Example Lessons:
      • Westford Farm Videos
        • Features Used – Uploading videos to a host site, adding video embed code to a placemark – -
        • TIP:
          • SchoolTube may be the best host for schools at this time ;
          • Get permissions in order at the beginning NOT as an afterthought
      • Burlington VT Webcams

    Adding Video to Maps with Google Maps

    Adding Sounds to Maps with Google Earth

    Adding Lines, Shapes and Custom Icons to Maps

    Adding Lines, Shapes and Custom Icons to Maps with Google Earth

    • Examples:
      • The Global Grocery List Project
        • Features Used – Finding Locations; Adding information to placemarks; Changing placemark icons; Using “Copy Image” to create a presentation in PowerPoint
        • Tips:
          • The Global Grocery List Online Database data will need to be cleaned up for your students to use – it is not being monitored and there are a number of incorrect entries;
          • The most difficult part of the process was getting students to save their work correctly. Have them create a folder with an appropriate name, drag each new placemark into that folder after it has been created and right click on the folder at the end of each work session, choose “Save Places as…” and save the folder to the student’s network folder or a flash drive.
        • Resources
      • Create a Country
        • Features Used – Organizing Placemarks in Folders, Drawing Polygons, Editing Placemarkers
        • Tips – Working on shared computers requires understanding of saving and retrieving placemarkers for future editing.
        • Resources
      • Two_Koreas_Graph

    Adding lines, shapes and placemarks to Maps with Google Maps

    Adding Overlays to Maps with Google Earth

    • Tutorials:
    • Video Tutorials:
    • Examples
      • Physiographic Regions
        • Features Used – turning on grid; using latitude and longitude points to fly to a specific location; using navigational tools to “look around” and report what you see
        • Tips:
          • We could have created placemarks for each location, saved this as a KMZ file and attached that file to the teacher’s Web site for easy access. Our approach gave students additional experience working with with latitude and longitude coordinates;
          • It may be difficult to have students find a specific location and stay there long enough to make adequate observations. With a flick of their finger they can fly off to a different county, state or country. By using latitude and longitude coordinates and directing students to only use the rotation ring students can look around without leaving the specified location. The capability/temptation to fly around is one of the benefits/problems with Google Earth that Google Maps doesn’t have.
          • All three of these maps can be opened in Google Earth at the same time and comparisons made about settlement patterns and physiographic features, etc. The maps can be turned on and off and made more or less transparent.
        • Physiographic Regions Worksheet
        • Resources
      • San Francisco Project
        • Use the information in overlay maps(fault lines, population distribution, seismic hazard areas, etc.) to determine the most suitable location for a new hospital in San Francisco
        • Features Used – Using Overlays -turning them on and off and changing their level of transparency;
        • Tips:
          • Overlays and layers built into Google Earth (roads, etc.) can be used in combinations and various levels of transparency to reach a solution.;
          • Placemarks might be assigned for each layer in a different color and the location with the most placemarks would be a logical choice.
        • Resources:
      • Our Place in the World (Long Island Series) – Students explore the local, regional, and global geographic context of Long Island using data posted on the Google Earth Community Forums. The data includes a digital elevation model overlay, a water table elevation contour overlay, and geologic map overlays for adjacent regions.

    Creating a Tour in Google Earth

    • Examples:
      • A Geographic Autobiography with Narration
        • Features Used – Recorder and placemarks
        • Tips – Placemarks and recording must be part of the same KMZ file must
      • Jimmy Buffett Hawaii Tour – make sure the terrain layer is turned on
      • Flight 1549
      • The Goldman Prize tour – The Goldman Prize has developed a tour that uses 3-D Google Earth imagery to tell the stories of the 2009 Prize recipients. Narrated by Robert Redford, the tour allows viewers to travel the world, visiting huge mountaintop removal mines, ship breaking yards and other locations where the Prize winners live and work.

    Sharing your Map

    Sharing you Google Earth Map

    Sharing your Google Maps Map

    Street View

    Street View in Google Earth

    Street View in Google Maps

    Adding Sketchup 3D models to Google Earth

    Adding Data from a GPS to Maps with Google Earth

    Historical Imagery Tool – Change Over Time

    Underwater View in Google Earth

    Google Earth Mashups

    The Latest Additions

    The Latest Additions to Google Earth

    The Latest Additions to Google Maps

    Using Google Earth and Google Maps in the Classroom

    Google Teachers Academy Google Earth Presentations


    Last updated: Jan 20, 2011 at 4:01 pm

     
     
     

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