Presentation during ISTE 2010

1. Deeper Understanding
through Google Earth

2. Look Closer

3. Look Closer

5. "If our students are not reading and
composing with various electronic
technologies, then they are
illiterate. They are not just
unprepared for the future, they are
illiterate right now, in our current
time and context.
(David Bolter, 1991)

6. Overview
Introduction
Format
Why Google Earth
Geography
History
Mathematics
Science
Literature
Building

7. Format

8. Format

9. Purpose

10. Purpose
To provide a tool set for teachers to engage
students in learning Google Earth's visual
geography tool.

11. Why Bother?
Engagement builds Understanding
- reading with purpose
Engaging with Technology
- 21st century tool
- not possible just 4 years ago
Integrating Cross Curricular Activities
Literature, Geography, History, Science,
Mathematics

12. Objectives
Engage students in geography, history,
mathematics and literature.
Explore basics of Google Earth such as
navigation toolbar, measurement tools, featured
content, placemarks, and layers of information.
Model using Google Earth to activate background
knowledge, and provide students access and
exposure to the world around them?
Suggest cross-curricular connections.

13. Why Google Earth
making connections
activate prior knowledge
create connections
visual learners

14. Why Google Earth
Transformation...
making connections
activate prior knowledge
create connections
visual learners

15. Your (students’)
Involvement
Observe Static Location
Navigate and Explore
Enhanced Connections
Create / Present
Story Tell

16. National Geographic
5 Themes of Geography
Location - Absolute / Relative / Lat / Long
Place - Physical Features
Human / Environment Interaction
Movement - Roads / Rivers
Regions - Borders

17. Location
NESW
Degrees, Minutes, Seconds
Decimal
Absolute / Relative

18. Location
NESW
Degrees, Minutes, Seconds
Decimal
Absolute / Relative

19. Navigation
Move, Fly, Tilt
Observe Latitude, Longitude
Arrows, Shift, Mouse, Grab
Search Your Address

20. Let me share with you
some BC Curriculum
Connections ....
While you play

21. Grade 7
Human and
Physical Environment
• E1 assess how physical
environments affected ancient
civilizations
• Provide students with
introduction to the Geography of
Ancient Civilizations, then have
them fly over the areas to identify
physical environments
• Students may also turn on the
weather layers.

22. Grade 2
Human and
Physical Environment
• E1 locate on a map landforms and
bodies of water of local and national
significance, including
• Pacific Ocean
• Atlantic Ocean
• Arctic Ocean
• Vancouver Island
• Rocky Mountains

23. Grade 2
Human and
Physical Environment
• E1 locate on a map landforms and
bodies of water of local and national
significance, including
• Pacific Ocean
• Atlantic Ocean
• Arctic Ocean
• Vancouver Island
• Rocky Mountains

24. Where do you live?

25. Transportation

26. Transportation

27. Fraser River
• Most Productive Salmon Fishery in
World
• Drains 1/3 of Province
• 80% population near it

28. Fraser River
• Most Productive Salmon Fishery in
World
• Drains 1/3 of Province
• 80% population near it

29. Grade 5 / Movement
Identity, Society, and
Culture
• B2 assess why immigrants came to
Canada, the individual challenges they
faced, and their contributions to Canada
• Consider a Google Lit Trip relating to
Immigration

30. Regions
• Layers -

31. Seasons
• Birds Eye Perspective

32. Check in for Explore
5, 4, 3, 2, 1

33. Geography Connections

34. Pre - Work together
Create a Folder
3D Ancient Rome is best accessed in 3 stages
Turn on Layer
Go to a building - download Terrain- Drag to
folder
Go to building - download Buildings - Drag to
Folder
We will come back later

35. Historical Perspective
Recent History
Photos (Panoramio) (Google)
City of London Timeline - Galleries
Ancient History
Rome (Layers)
Egypt (Download Model)

36. Search
earth.google.com/gallery/
or
GE Gallery

37. Time Travel Back to
Rome

38. Time
5,4,3,2,1

39. History through
Geography

40. Connections in History

41. Mathematics
Lat / Long
Distance, Perimeter, Area, Circumference
Units of Measure
3D Shapes

42. SMOOT ??
He was used as a Fraternity Prank to measure
the Harvard Brindge in Oct 1958.
One Smoot is equal to Oliver Smoot's height at
the time of the prank (five feet and seven inches
~1.70 m)

43. What is there to
measure?
From Home to School
Path from Home to School
Perimeter / Area of School Grounds
Perimeter / Area of School Buiding
Using Real World Number Problems

44. 3D Building Maker
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/
buildingmaker

45. Rulers
sketchup.google.com/
3dwarehouse/buildingmaker

46. Assessment for Learning
GE file could be quite easy if overlayed on
your master.
Allows for growth and change in a visual
way or Self Assessment
Non Linear - encourages us to not mark
every aspect
Identify misconceptions visually

47. Time
5,4,3,2,1

48. Time Permitting

49. Recapping Math

50. Science

51. Google Lit Trips.org

53. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/02/07/loc_hana.html

54. Underground to
Canada
Barbara Smucker
http://flickr.com/photos/beija-flor/65672496/

55. Underground Google
Geography
to Canada Earth
Know
Want to
Know
Interested

56. Connections in Literature

57. Making your own
resource
Next we will look at the creation process
through the lens of a Google Lit Trip

58. The Power

59. Locations

60. Follow Your Assignment
or not
Assignment 1 - Denver
Assignment 2 - Home with html and embed

61. HTML Primer
<a close all brackets> </a>
<img src="http://www.iste.org/AM/Graphics/
iste2010-logo.jpg">
<a href="http://iamliterate.wikispaces.com">See
Kevin's Website</a>

62. Assignment 3
Follow Along
Organizing
Polygons
Paths

63. Record a Tour
Assignment 4

64. Assignment 5
Network Layer

65. Extensions
Check out – Sky, Mars, Moon
Check out – Ocean Layer
Return to Gallery – Volcanoes, Weather
3D Building Maker
View in Google Maps
External – Saving Images
Save Place as KML and view as Text – Now can
direct edit KML files
Make a Movie – Tools menu – Movie Maker
Flight Simulator - http://earth.google.com/support/
bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=148092

66. Pause and Check
What could not have happened without
Google Earth?

67. Pause and Check
What could not have happened without
Google Earth?
Transformation...

68. Thank you
Please contact me
Kevin Amboe
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