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Google Earth allows you to integrate technology easily into any content area. We will explore innovative ways to use Google Street View, Google Tour Builder and Google Lit Trips to engage and involve students by giving real world connections.
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Not just for Geography!How to Engage Students with the
technology available to you
Google Earth for Classroom UsePresenter: Jodie JohnstonBlue Valley Education [email protected]
How often is this the view from the front of the room?
How can we help improve interaction?
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What Does Google Earth Have to Offer?
Google Earth is Free (PC or mobile app)
Can be incorporated at every grade level & all content
areas
Can be used for creating interactive lessons by the teacher
Can be used by the students to create presentations
Google Earth files can be shared in a variety of ways for
students to revisit and review
Start Where You AreUse What You Have
Do What You Can-Arthur Ashe
A Great Place to StartGoogle Street View
• Types of Houses for different landscapes Discover accommodations for environment • Visit Monuments• Visit coastal areas, desert or swamps during a habitat unit• Pre-visit a place before a class Field Trip• Visit the location that was in a book. Walk down a city street in Paris. Retrace a characters route.• Mount Everest is mapped to the top• Grand Canyon is mapped to the bottom
http://youtu.be/H0_lTKDu0IY Link to Google Street View Car “Behind the scenes.”
Basic Street View Steps
1. Sign in if you are wanting to add pins/placemarks for future use.2. Search for location 3. Use + to zoom close enough to view streets4. Drag orange man to any blue lined street and let go5. Use the mouse to look 360 degrees.6. Double click on the street to “drive” forward.
Find a way to Make a
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Make a Memory
of a Place
Studying Rural, Suburban & Urban Areas
Click here for a sample field trip: http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cIXXYtV85R
Suburban: CHE Elementary- Overland Park, KS Rural: Ness City Elementary- Ness City, KS (Western KS) Urban: PS290 Manhattan, NY
Student Reactions-engaged, alert, inquisitive
Teacher Reactions-better discussions-noticed students talked like they were there -surprised how easy learning street view was
Google Tour Builder
Tour Builderhttps://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com
Personalize places and experiences Add photos, text, and video Student Presentations Share out to an audience
Jane Goodall Institute Tour
Tour Builder in the Classroom
Teacher Made Tour of Southwest Region
Google Lit Tripshttp://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Home.html
Search the trip gallery Let Students explore & research Alternative to test or book report
Demos & School Stories
Download Completed Trips Here
Tutorial Help Section
Watch this short tour of what Google Earth is all about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsNncKEIWuw
Tutorials to learn the basicshttp://www.google.com/earth/learn/
http://www.google.com/earth/learn/beginner.html#tab=placemarks-and-toursCreating place marks:
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/education/Google Educators site
http://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/K-5/K-5.htmlGoogle Lit trips
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2013/09/great-google-earth-resources-teachers.htmlGoogle Earth Blog
https://www.google.com/earth/outreach/tutorials/tourbuilder.htmlTour Builder for Storytelling
Any time you talk about a location in a story or as part of your curriculum
GO THERE! Students will be more engaged and remember more details about the
place then if they only read about it.