from the earth: explore, collaborate, and share with google earth

18 November 2008

Thomas CooperTechnology Integration CoordinatorThe Walker SchoolMarietta, Georgia

From the EarthGeo Apps: Maps, Earth, and SketchUp

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How to absorb the next 30 minutes:

Know there are links to all of this information online. Contribute to our discussions. Write down your brainstorms of HOW you will take this information to your classrooms/Teachers.Feel free to follow along when we jump online to these apps!


Tools that Talk to Each Other:


What are Geo Apps?

Geographical Information Systems store data and associate the data with points and polygons on a map.Various tools allow you to manipulate these data points and understand the relationship between them.


Inspire Students to be Aware of their Surroundings:

Google Apps can be used to inspire students to do discover and be aware of their surrounding.Pre-K and K students memorize their home address and are then shown where it is in Google Earth.

More lesson ideas for integrating GE Apps into PreK and K at:http://thewalkerschool.wikispaces.com


Inspire Students to Explore:

Geo Apps allow you to add points, polygons and 3D shapes and then save the file.You can also add placemarks which can contain text, pictures, and links.In this activity 3rd grade students researched American explorers and collectively built a map of their research.

Google Confidential and ProprietarySource: Comscore Media Metrix, Sept 2004

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Use a GPS and Geo Tools to Analyze Information:

Measuring tools in Google Earth can be used to understand the spatial relationship between different points and polygons on a map.

6th grade students took Garmin GPS units to the Atlanta zoo and used them to find the location of various animals. Besides collecting data on some of the animals for science class, the also uploaded the data points and were tasked with calculating the shortest route to see all of the animals with minimal overlapping in their route. The also calculated the total distance walked during the exercise.


Inspire Students to Collaborate:

Students at all grade levels can collect data about their environment and upload it to a layer in GE Apps.In the project enviornmental minded students from different grade levels are cooperating to collect data on their drinking water.The project encourages students to take responsibility for keeping their local water supply clean.

Clean Watershed Project at:http://cleanwatersheds.wikispaces.com

Google Confidential and ProprietarySource: Google 2004 Industrial Markets Survey, conducted by Insight Express (May 2004); Sample size = 300 respondents

Understand the Historical Significance of Exploration:

In this project, students created a series of placemarks that traced a famous expedition.

Outdoor Culture and Technology at: http://outdoortech.wikispaces.com Google Lit Trips at: http://www.googlelittrips.com/

Google Confidential and ProprietarySource: Google 2004 Industrial Markets Survey, conducted by Insight Express (May 2004); Sample size = 300 respondents

Inspire Students to become Globably Aware:

Students can use Geo Apps to create layers about a social issue to raise awareness and plan fund raising activities.In this project, students study how children are marginalized around the world through poverty, malnutrition, mental disorders, disease and other topics.

Our Lost Children at: http://ourlostchildren.wikispaces.com


:Geo Apps Inspire Students to:

Discover (conduct research and identify problems)Engage in Discourse (participate in civil discussions on current events)Become Aware and Analyze Their Surrounding (use spatial tools and math skills to problem solving)Negotiate (to understand and appreciate others’ points of view)Be Aware (look at global issues that affect us all)Engage Themselves (to become part of civil and social engagement efforts to solve problems in our community and abroad)


Google For Educators

Featured Google Apps Educators’ Projects at: http://www.google.com/educators/geo.html


Google Earth Community:

Featured Projects from Professional Organizations at:http://www.google.com/educators/geo.html


Thank You:

Source: http://www.cashedge.com/pressRoom/news_070104_bst.html

“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.”

—John Hope Franklin

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