Google Earth Users Guide Project: Ollie Bray and Paul Cornish. Enhancing Geography T&L with Google Earth.
How Teachers are using Google Earth in the classroom. Google Earth is a game changer in the classroom and it brings geography lessons to a whole new level by providing an immersive interactive experience for students.
It’s an app that educators across the world have implemented within their classes to give students a richer hands-on experience and a better point of reference. As an example, while looking through images in a textbook is great, it doesn’t offer the same understanding as virtually walking down the streets of Japan using Google Earth. And it leaves adults asking “why wasn’t I lucky enough to have this in school?”. In the last few years, we’ve seen remarkable finds from people using Google Earth. One that comes to mind was an article from 2007 where an amateur Archaeologist named Cor Schipper discovered a lost underwater castle (N 52°14’57 E 5°25’23) in Holland. Science, mathematics, geography and history are just a few of the subjects where Google Earth can be used to as an effective teaching tool. Teaching with Google Earth. Created by Glenn A.
Richard, Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook University A Complete Guide to Using Google Earth in the Geoscience Classroom What is Google Earth? - provides Google Earth basics, including descriptions of the three versions of the program.Becoming Familiar with Google Earth - provides information about web resources and books for learning how to use Google Earth. Why Teach with Google Earth? Classroom Activities: Ready-to-use Ready to get started teaching with Google Earth? Contribute a Teaching Activity. Using Google Earth in the classroom. Tutorials & Tips - Google Earth for Educators. Earth for Educators. Earth Engine. Earth Engine Access Develop, access and run algorithms on the full Earth Engine data archive, all using Google's parallel processing platform.
Access to Earth Engine is currently available as a limited release to a small group of partners. If you are interested in developing on the Earth Engine platform, let us know. Google Earth Engine brings together the world's satellite imagery — trillions of scientific measurements dating back almost 40 years — and makes it available online with tools for scientists, independent researchers, and nations to mine this massive warehouse of data to detect changes, map trends and quantify differences on the Earth's surface.
Applications include: detecting deforestation, classifying land cover, estimating forest biomass and carbon, and mapping the world’s roadless areas. New! Explore different views into this global timelapse built from global, annual composites of Landsat satellite images. Growth of Las Vegas, Nevada Amazon Deforestation, Brazil. Google Earth lessons. Using Google Earth in the classroom Teaching ideas, guides, downloadable files and links to other resources can all be found at Juicy Geography's Google Earth blog.
This page is regularly updated, and features original lesson plans and resources, suitable for KS3, KS4 and K12, that have all been thoroughly tested in the classroom. The lessons include: “Stonehenge Management” This lesson is designed to demonstrate the potential of Google Earth as a real world decision making tool. “Visualizing a Safer City” This task promotes spatial thinking and utilizes Google Earth as a simple GIS. “Sea level rise on the Gold Coast” Students create maps of sea-level change and assess the likely impact on the Gold Coast. “His Dark Materials” This lesson idea combines the study of the classic modern children’s book Northern Lights with an investigation in Google Earth, as students find out about an extreme, and fascinating land. “The Diamond Trade” “Montserrat Crisis Management” “Jurrasic Coast” “Exeter’s CBD” Google Earth Design. Google Earth Official Channel.
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