Cross Curricular and Across the K-12 World with Google Earth
Friday, January 25th, 2008Cross Curricular and Across the K-12 World with Google Earth with Cindy Lane
Lane.cindy@gmail.com
www.googleearthgoods.pbwiki.com
Langwitches notes from same session – GREAT notes!
- password for wiki is Cindylane
- thanks to Kathy for ustreaming the session
- most in audience know a bit about Google Earth
- geogreeting.com
- create spelling words
- can find and graph words from all over world
- shows letters on world map
- good for elementary school
- Math
- instant chart in Excel highlight data and then F11
- KMZ file in geometry
- measure in smoots (5 ft 7 in)
- measure polygons
- go to tools and click on ruler
- measure a line or a path
- can change from miles to yards to smoots
- Science
- can link live volcano pics into googleearth
- Language Arts
- Jerome Berg
- Lit trips
- www.googlelittrips.com
- Jerome Berg
- Social Studies
- insert image from United Streaming
- added buttons on top of each image to make a writing assignment
- on wiki
- GREAT idea!!
- go into Google Earth to see all the Civil War battles
- each one has info and has a hyperlink of the battles
- can view where the battle actually occurred
- Foreign Language
- on youtube using google earth in the foreign language classroom
- KMZ or KML
- Google Earth Community
- Google – more – even more -earth – Google Earth community on left hand side
- click on GE community
- click on education
- 11000 posts
- Google – advanced search – kml or kmz file format
- automatically opens in Google Earth
- make sure you SAVE so you don’t have to go hunt again
- KMZ is a zip file
- KML is a language (one file)
- All Google Earth images are at oldest 3 to 4 years
- Peggy White also has a similar presentation – all info is on Cindy’s pbwiki
- basic navigation tips
- GD and GE links in pbwiki
- make a folder first
Until next time ~ Danita
