What is Google Earth?

Ways to Use Google Earth in the Classroom

Classroom Examples

Layers of Learning with Google Earth

Tools and Layers

Presented By:Adam Controy and Andrew Santacecilia

https://ktiadam.wikispaces.com

What is Google Earth?

Google Earth is a satellite imagery-based mapping product and a 3D model of the entire planet that allows the user to grab, spin, and zoom down into any place on Earth, as well as, various locations throughout space and the ocean.

Use layers to economics, historical maps, etc...

Demonstrate distance calculations

Google Sketch Up and overlays

Link video, audio, images and websites

What are some special features of Google Earth?

Use Discovery Streaming and Builders and web 2.0 tools like Glogster and Jing

Create paths, polygons, and tours

Explore the moon, Mars, sky and oceans

Why Use GE in the Classroom?To give teachers opportunities:

1. to engage and excite learners2. to help learners conceptualize, visualize, share, and communicate

information about the world and social studies/history3. to provide cross-curricular learning options4. to create active, exploratory, and empowering learning environments

To give students opportunities:

5. to exhibit their learning to others6. to use emerging technologies and digital tools7. to communicate their research in a personally meaningful way (Web 2.0 )8. to view their world from a more connected, global perspective9. to enhance map reading and navigation skills

Examples of Google Earth in the Classroom (American Revolution)

Fifth graders use Discovery Educators Network, PhotoStory 3, Audacity, Teacher Tube, Glogster, and Blabberize to build a collaborative Google Earth Tour

Students learned to take notes throughout the tour on details from significant events, content of movies, etc.

Students record entries into their SS journal by answering specific questions about the content based on the tour.

Examples of Google Earth in the Classroom (Climate)

Fifth graders used Discovery Streaming and Jing to build a collaborative Google Earth Tour. Each group of students were required to report “live” from a various regions (polar, temperate and tropical) across the world informing their audience about climate and weather.Students took notes throughout the process on details from their region, and used content from related video clips on Discovery Streaming.Students used their notes to create a narrative that would be used to report back to their audience via a Google Earth tour.

Examples of Google Earth in the Classroom (Frogs)

First grades explore a virtual field trip in which students visit each continent to learn about different frogs. Through interactive activities, Discovery Streaming videos & assignments, and various Web 2.0 applications, the students are learning as they create and share products that demonstrate their knowledge on the frogs from each continent.

Google Earth and Discovery Student Adventures

Search, Places and Layers

This is what the screen willlike when you open upGoogle Earth.

There are three features to use inthe toolbar to the left.

3D-Viewer

Three Ways to Fly1. Enter the location name

- Spelling Counts- Do not use "The"- Examples to try

a. Eiffel Towerb. Niagara Fallsc. Statue of Liberty

2. Paste in coordinates from Wikipedia or another source Eiffel Tower 48° 51' 29" North, 2° 17' 40"

3. Enter City, Country- Then try adding layers

a. 3-D Building Warehouseb. Geographic Webc. Google Earth Community

Using the Places Feature/Build Tours

The places feature will remember any place that you recently visited from your desktop. You can also save to my places.

Organize, Save and Share Google Earth Files (KMZ,KML)

Drag content into a logical sequence in a folderRight click on the folderSave as a KMZ file

Make a Folder •Right click on My Places•Add a folder•Name the folder

Explore, Search, and DiscoverGoogle Earth

In the Earth Gallery you will find many tours, animations and sketch-ups created by people from around the world. Use the search engine or the links to the left to explore the Earth Gallery

Using the Layers Feature

The Layers feature in Google Earth provides a variety of data points of geographic interest that you can select to display over your viewing area. This includes points of interest (POIs) as well as map, road, terrain, and building data.

Some layers act as folders that contain categories of data. These layers are indicated by a plus sign. Click on the plus sign to view the sub-categories for each layer.

Five Fun Layers Found by a Fourth Grader (or maybe six)•National Geographic Ocean Atlas •State of the Ocean

1. Sea Surface Temperature2. Human Impacts3. Marie Tharp Historical Map4. UNEP Atlas of a Changing Environment

•Discovery Network•NASA•Gigapan Photos•Cousteau Ocean World•Google News•Street View

Placemarkers

AddPolygons

AddPath

AddImage Overlay

Record a Tour

Show HistoricalImagery

Sunlight across theLandscape

EarthSkyMarsMoon

Ruler

View inGoogle Maps

Print

The Tool Bar

Click on the "Placemark" icon in the toolbar

A flashing placemarker will appear. You can drag this to the location where you want to mark.

Right click on the placemarker, a box will come up for you to write a description.

You will want to give your placemarker a title. This is also where you would write in information for your students, questions, etc, link websites or embed code.

Adding a Placemark

Click on the "Polygon or Path" icon in the toolbarA flashing marker will appear. You can drag this from location to location to create a polygonal shape.Double click on the Polygon, a box will come up for you to write a description.

Adding a Polygon or Path

Free-Form shape Click once, hold, and drag. The cursor changes to an up-arrow to indicate that you are using free-form mode. As you drag the cursor around the 3D viewer, the outline of the shape follows the path of your cursor. If you are drawing a path, a line appears as a result, and if you are drawing a polygon, a shape evolves from the path of your cursor, always connecting the beginning and ending points.

Regular shape Click and release. Move the mouse to a new point and click to add additional points.

Adding Images

Click "add image overlay“ and this box will appear.Give your picture a title.

Then click on browse to locate any saved files in the computer.

Below, you can add a description of your photo for your students. This is also a place where you can ask questions, prompt their thinking, or embed video or sound.

Adding Video

1. Link videos from Discovery Streaming, or any other website.

2. Embed video by pasting HTML code into your placemark's properties

Embedding Images in a Placemark

1. Open up your web browser and find an image, copyright free of course (try using Creative Commons or, Flickr)

2. Find the URL for the picture you would like to embed in t the Placemark. Copy the URL into the description section.

3. Now we need to do a little HTML coding: Copy this code <img src=“URL”>

4. Go back and click on the placemark. You should see the image embedded in the placemark

Creating the “Floating Object”Screen Overlay

Hall Davidson from the Discovery Educator Network shared this code on his blog. You can find his blog at Discoveryeducatornetwork.com ( media matters blog)

1. Download the KTIADAM.kmz file from this wiki.2. Click the file to open it in Google Earth.3. It should save to your Temporary Places. Click on it and from

file, select Save Places As. Save it as a KML, NOT KMZ.4. Open a Word document and then open the KTIADAM.kml file.5. Replace file name KTI Adam with your file name6. Replace href with the URL for your picture7. Save the file. You will get warning messages. (Ignore them)8. Find the file. Click on it (don’t launch it.) Rename it.

Change the extension to .kmz. Open it in Google Earth.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.1"><ScreenOverlay id="khScreenOverlay974"><name>KTIADAM</name><LookAt id="khLookAt975"><longitude>-61.69480402391395</longitude><latitude>16.11957090813545</latitude><altitude>0</altitude><range>10056.25389044684</range><tilt>77.67246913730361</tilt><heading>-24.37696764355566</heading></LookAt><Icon><href>http://acontroy.wikispaces.com/space/showlogo/1219854737/logo.jpg</href></Icon><overlayXY x="0.5" y="0.5" xunits="fraction" yunits="fraction"/><screenXY x="0.3" y="0.7" xunits="fraction" yunits="fraction"/><rotationXY x="0.5" y="0.5" xunits="fraction" yunits="fraction"/><size x="0" y="0" xunits="pixels" yunits="pixels"/></ScreenOverlay></kml>

Getting Help is Easy

Google Earth for Educators Google Earth Outreach

Google Earth Outreach gives non-profits and public benefit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to visualize their cause and tell their story in Google Earth & Maps to the hundreds of millions of people who use them.

http://earth.google.com/outreach/showcase.htmlhttp://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html

Explore Google Earth for Educators and you will find classroom ideas, an educators community and some great examples of how to use Google Earth in the classroom.

http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com

http://www.gelessons.com

http://bbs.keyhole.com

http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/dherring/ge/googleearth.htm

http://googlelittrips.org

http://googleearthgoods.pbwiki.com

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/02/noaa_weather_data_in_google_earth.html

http://realworldmath.org/

Lesson Plan Resources

Have a great weekend!

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