Making Social Studies Come Alive with Google Earth and Discovery Education Shannon Wentworth Instructional Technology Teacher Sixth Avenue Elementary School [email protected]Gwynn Moore Instructional Technology Teacher Paris Elementary School [email protected]TIE Conference 2009
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Making Social Studies Come Alive with Google Earth and Discovery Education. TIE Conference 2009. Installing Google Earth. Google Earth 5.0 can be downloaded for free at http://earth.google.com / . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Making Social Studies Come Alive with Google Earth and Discovery
Education
Shannon Wentworth Instructional Technology TeacherSixth Avenue Elementary School
slide. The first letter of each city will spell out
the state in which we live.
Let’s Get Familiar With Google Earth
Latitude Longitude Letters21 09 N 86 50 W 659 54 N 10 44 E 415 25 S 28 16 E 651 18 N 85 22 W 740 34 N 122 22 W 734 55 S 138 35 S 839 09 N 75 30 W 535 29 N 97 27 W 12
Crack the Code
The idea for this activity came from Thinkfinity partner National Geographic.http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/01/crackcode.html
1. View an image of your home, school or any place on Earth - Click Fly To. Enter the location in the input box and click the Search button. In the search results (Places panel), double click the location. Google Earth flies you to this location.
2. Tour the world - In the Places panel, open the Learn and Explore folder and double click Explore.
3. Get driving directions from one place to another and fly (follow) the route.
4. View other cool locations and features created by other Google Earth users - In the Layers panel, check Community Showcase. Interesting placemarks and other features appear in the 3D viewer. Double click these points of interest to view and explore.
5. View 3D terrain of a place - This is more fun with hilly or mountainous terrain, such as the Grand Canyon. Go to a location. When the view shows the location, use the zoom slider to tilt the terrain.
Now navigate to Custer State Park. Formatting text requires some basic html
command codes. Inserting line breaks <br> Bold text <b> before the text, </b> after the text Italics <i> before the text, </i> after the text Center <center> before the text, </center> after
the text Text color can be changed with the Style, Color
tab. Click OK.
Formatting Text (Custer State Park)
You can insert an image into a Google Earth bubble as long as it has been posted to a website. There are many free image hosting sites.
You can also use royalty free images. http://images2.pics4learning.com/cat
alog/m/mt.rushmore3.jpg Right click on the photo and go to
Type the following code into the Google Earth properties box <img src=“***’>.
Replace the astericks *** with the address for the image you wish to use.
Note – if the address is too long, it may not contain the whole file name. If that is the case, simply click back to Discovery Education Streaming and copy the rest of the file name from the top of the property box.
Don’t forget to copy and paste the citation from DE Streaming into your Google Earth bubble.
Discovery Ed Images part 2
First, go to Tools and Options in the Menu Bar.
Place a Check in “Allow placemark balloons to access local files and personal data.”
Locate the file you wish to use and record its exact location.
Type <img src=“***”> in the placemark balloon, replacing the astericks *** with the file location.
Local Image (Sioux Falls)
You can also insert DE Streaming videos. http://player.discoveryeducation.com/ind
You can tweak your tour further by going to Tools – Options and then clicking the Touring tab.
More Options
Select your Tour Folder. Click File – Save As – Save Place As. Save your file as a .kmz file. It is now ready to be emailed, posted
on the Internet, or saved to a shared network drive for others to access.
Saving Your Tour
Select the Tour Folder. Click the Play Tour button from the
Sidebar. The Control Bar will appear at the
bottom left corner.
Playing Your Tour
Break
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 even building data. The full list of layers is available in the Layers panel.
Layers content is created by Google or its content partners. Google publishes the content you see in the Layers panel.
Take some time to explore the Layers panel. Some of our favorites are the 3D Buildings (Statue of Liberty) and Gallery – Discovery Networks (Beijing).
Using Layers
Ocean - Fly and navigate under the ocean and explore underwater terrain. You can also display the ocean surface.
Touring - Record, play and share custom tours that capture your actions and movements in Google Earth.
Historical imagery - Explore images of the recent and not-so-recent past.
Mars - View imagery and terrain of the red planet.