1) The document discusses how Geo Apps like Google Earth, Maps, and SketchUp can be used to inspire students to discover, engage with their surroundings, explore, analyze information, collaborate, understand history, raise global awareness, and become engaged. 2) It provides examples of lesson plans and student projects using Geo Apps across different grade levels and subjects like science, social studies, language arts, and math. 3) The document encourages educators to contribute their own lesson ideas and projects using Geo Apps to an online community forum.

1. 18 November 2008
From the Earth
Geo Apps: Maps, Earth, and SketchUp
Thomas Cooper
Technology Integration Coordinator
The Walker School
Marietta, Georgia

2. 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!
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3. Tools that Talk to Each Other:
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4. 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.
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5. 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
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6. 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.
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7. 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
Network
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
80%
calculated the total distance walked during the exercise.
Source: Comscore Media Metrix, Sept 2004 Google Confidential and Proprietary

8. 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
Clean Watershed Project at:
http://cleanwatersheds.wikispaces.com their local water supply
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9. 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/
Source: Google 2004 Industrial Markets Survey, conducted by Insight Express (May 2004); Google Confidential and Proprietary
Sample size = 300 respondents

10. 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 Our Lost Children at: http://ourlostchildren.
other topics. wikispaces.com
Source: Google 2004 Industrial Markets Survey, conducted by Insight Express (May 2004); Google Confidential and Proprietary
Sample size = 300 respondents

11. :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)
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12. Google For Educators
Featured Google Apps Educators’ Projects at:
http://www.google.com/educators/geo.html
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13. Google Earth Community:
Featured Projects from Professional Organizations at:
http://www.google.com/educators/geo.html
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14. Thank You:
“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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