Google Earth Virtual Voyages, Virtual Field Trips: Resources
Virtual Voyages, Virtual Field Trips
Links/Resources:
Google Lit Trips: Using Google Earth, students discover where the greatest road trip stories of all time took place. The site features Google Lit Trips to support Grapes of Wrath, The Aeniead, My Brother Sam is Dead, and more!
3D Warehouse: This massive collection of user-created content contains 3D model created in Google SketchUp. Many of the models have been saved as .kmz files, which can be imported into Google Earth. Search for models of buildings or monuments in places you are sharing with your students.
Laptop Lounge Podcasts: Google Earth Basics: Subscribe to this podcast series for multiple short video tutorials on using the various tools in Google Earth. Play the videos from your computer or your iPod.
Google Earth TeacherTube videos: Three short (8 minute) videos have been uploaded to Teacher Tube focusing on Google Earth:
- Part I: General Information
- Part II: Touring
- Part III: Google Sky; Flight Simulator
Google Earth Lessons: An educational resource for teachers that includes how to's, teacher and student lessons, mini-lessons, and an Icon Legend section.
Real World Math: This website is designed for educators who wish to extend the concepts of the math curriculum beyond the pages of the text.
Timer: Count down or count up with this helpful online timer.
Webmonkey HTML Cheat Sheet: If the HTML handout and templates are just enough to whet your appetite, visit Webmonkey for a list of HTML commands you can use in your placemark balloons.
GoogleTM Earth Resources
Google Earth Home Page - Dowload the free Google Earth application to get started.
Google Earth User Guide - This Google page provides detailed user information for the many features of Google Earth.
Google Earth: Beyond Your Backyard - This one hour video, by members of the Google Earth development team, discusses the many features of Google Earth.
Google Lit Trips - Help students discover the geography behind great literature as they follow the travels of characters in the book.
Google Earth Community - This developer forum has information on all things Google Earth. Check out the Sightseer, Google Earth's monthly newsletter. Each month, there are new placemarks associated with that month's events - great for "this day in history" conversations!
Google Sky
An article about the new feature in Google Earth that turns a computer into a telescope!
Handouts:
Google Earth Features - this handout explains the various toolbars and icons in Google Earth 4.2.
KMZ templates - This .kmz file has four examples of layouts you might choose to use for your pop-up balloons. Go to the placemark properties, and copy the text. Paste the text into your own placemark, and replace the image locations, links, and words with your own content!
HTML Templates - use the examples on this page to copy and paste into placemark balloons. You can then change the words, and keep the formatting in place.
Formatting example page - use the examples on this page to see what each of the html tags does in a page comparison.
.KMZ Examples
Wojciech: Ancestor immigration tour
| History-Social Science | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.1 | Students differentiate between things that happened long ago and things that happened yesterday. Trace the history of a family through the use of primary and secondary sources, including artifacts, photographs, interviews, and documents. | |
| 2.2.3 | Students demonstrate map skills by describing the absolute and relative locations of people, places, and environments. Locate on a map where their ancestors live(d), telling when the family moved to the local community and how and why they made the trip. | |
| 7.4.2 | Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the sub-Saharan civilizations of Ghana and Mali in Medieval Africa. Analyze the importance of family, labor specialization, and regional commerce in the development of states and cities in West Africa. | |
| 7.5.2 | Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of Medieval Japan. Discuss the reign of Prince Shotoku of Japan and the characteristics of Japanese society and family life during his reign. | |
| 7.7.2 | Students compare and contrast the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Meso-American and Andean civilizations. Study the roles of people in each society, including class structures, family life, warfare, religious beliefs and practices, and slavery. | |
| 11.3.1 | Students analyze the role religion played in the founding of America, its lasting moral, social, and political impacts, and issues regarding religious liberty. Describe the contributions of various religious groups to American civic principles and social reform movements (e.g., civil and human rights, individual responsibility and the work ethic, antimonarchy and self-rule, worker protection, family-centered communities). | |
| 11.11.3 | Students analyze the major social problems and domestic policy issues in contemporary American society. Describe the changing roles of women in society as reflected in the entry of more women into the labor force and the changing family structure. | |
| 11.11.7 | Students analyze the major social problems and domestic policy issues in contemporary American society. Explain how the federal, state, and local governments have responded to demographic and social changes such as population shifts to the suburbs, racial concentrations in the cities, Frostbelt-to-Sunbelt migration, international migration, decline of family farms, increases in out-of-wedlock births, and drug abuse. | |
iPod man: This .kmz file takes you to one of the unusual geographic features identified by Google Earth fans.
Tennessee State Report: This is an example of a student-created curriculum project in Google Earth. The criteiria for the elements of the Google Earth state report are no different than a written report, except for the non-linear format.
