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How to use Google Earth in your geography teaching

To all those attending the talk, Many thanks for attending and for giving your fantastic suggestions. These are included on the last slides. Look out for another GoogleEarth lecture next year! Enjoy playing…. James. Google Earth: Practical Ideas.

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How to use Google Earth in your geography teaching

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  1. To all those attending the talk,Many thanks for attending and for giving your fantastic suggestions. These are included on the last slides. Look out for another GoogleEarth lecture next year!Enjoy playing….James

  2. Google Earth: Practical Ideas How to use Google Earth in your geography teaching James Riley Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby james.riley@lawrencesheriffschool.com Please use the sticky notes provided to write down one (innovative) way that you have used Google Earth in your geography teaching. These will be shared after the course.

  3. Presentation Outline • Introduction • Google Earth as a teaching tool • Google Earth as a resource for pupils • Google Earth promoting geography in schools • Concluding remarks ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley

  4. Introduction Please use the sticky notes provided to write down one (innovative) way that you have used Google Earth in your geography teaching. These will be shared after the course. • These will be culminated and shared on the online GA materials after the conference • a ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 1

  5. Google Earth as GIS • OCR • “identify, select, collect and record a variety of quantitative and qualitative evidence through field work and from other primary and secondary sources, including…geographical information systems” www.ocr.org.uk • Edexcel • “use modern information technologies, including geographical information systems (GIS), as appropriate to the content” www.edexcel.com • AQA • “ICT skills to include…use of geographical information systems” www.aqa.org.uk Why buy expensive GIS packages when Google Earth can fulfil the requirements for contemporary geography curricula for free? ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 1

  6. Google Earth as a teaching tool 2.1 Locations 2.2 Use of layers 2.3 Downloading kmz/kml files 2.4 Tours 2.5 Map overlays 2.6 Historical imagery 2.7 Exploring Climate Change ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 2

  7. 2.1 Locations Simple ‘where are we now’ and then ‘where are we going’… Use of interactive whiteboard – dragging Use of 3D mouse ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 2.1

  8. 2.1 Locations 3Dconnexion Space Navigator, RRP £45 ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 2.1

  9. 2.2 Use of Layers • Panoramios (talk about later) • Wikipedia pages • Roads • 3D buildings • Street View (talk about later) • Traffic • Weather • and many more…and constantly growing… ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 2.2

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  11. 2.3 Downloading kmz/kml files • KML = Keyhole Markup Language • KML vs KMZ • kmz is a zipped kml • kmz larger, can include images etc • Finding kmz/kmls… ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 2.3

  12. 2.3 Downloading kmz/kml files • Infant Mortality • Found googling “infant mortality .kmz” ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 2.3

  13. 2.4 Tours • What is a Google Earth tour? • How do I make one? • How do I alter tour variables? • How do I save tours? • What (dis)advantages? • Bristol Tour ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 2.4

  14. 2.5 Map overlays • Get map (scan on, online, screendump etc) and save it • Find location • Overlay image • Make image semi-transparent • Align image properly • Make image opaque again ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 2.5

  15. 2.5 Map overlays • Particularly effective in 3D – grips surface of land ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 2.5

  16. 2.5 Map overlays • Particularly effective in 3D – grips surface of land • Can do world maps that grips to world ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 2.5

  17. 2.6 Historical imagery • Use of older aerial shots to compare against current land use ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 2.6

  18. 2.6 Historical imagery • Use of older aerial shots to compare against current land use • Ideas for use • Beijing Olympic Park and Birds Nest Stadium vs pre-Olympic development ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 2.6

  19. Beijing Olympic Park 2001

  20. Beijing Olympic Park 2009

  21. 2.6 Historical imagery • Use of older aerial shots to compare against current land use • Ideas for use • Beijing Olympic Park and Birds Nest Stadium vs pre-Olympic development • Coastal erosion (Happisburgh) • Emergence of Dubai coastline • Melting ice caps ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 2.6

  22. 2.7 Exploring Climate Change • Recently produced section on Climate Change in Google Earth with Al Gore http://www.google.com/landing/cop15/ • IPCC Scenarios KMZ file ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 2.7

  23. Google Earth as a resource for pupils 3.1 Street View 3.2 Screenshots and hyperlinked PowerPoints 3.3 Representations of place 3.4 Virtual fieldwork 3.5 Google SketchUp 3.6 GE-Graph ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 3

  24. 3.1 Street View • What is it? • How do I use it? • Ideas for geography lessons ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’ Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 3.1

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  27. 3.1 Street View • Exploring parts of the world • Yosemite National Park: looking at glacial features • Environmental Quality Surveys • Is there car parking nearby? • Is there wheelchair access? • Preview tourist facilities: how close is it to public transport? Is that beach accessible? Are there noisy bars nearby? • Land Use Transects (virtual geography) • Revisiting fieldtrip locations • London Docklands ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’ Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 3.1

  28. 3.1 Street View • Also available through Google Maps • www.google.com/maps ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’ Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 3.1

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  30. 3.2 Screenshots and hyperlinked PowerPoints • What is it? • How do I use it? • Ideas for geography lessons ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’ Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 3.2

  31. 3.3 Representation of place • What is it? • How do I use it? • Ideas for geography lessons • Use of Google Earth Panoramios • e.g. “study the panoramios and investigate what it is like to live on a char in Bangladesh. Select the five images that best show what life is like and explain why you chose them.” ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’ Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 3.3

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  33. 3.4 Virtual Fieldwork • Measuring distances with the Line and Path tool • Examples • Investigating longshore drift on a beach • Measuring the size of glacial features • Measuring the width of a river as it flows downstream ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 3.4

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  35. 3.4 Virtual Fieldwork • Measuring distances with the Line and Path tool • Examples • Investigating longshore drift on a beach • Measuring the size of glacial features • Measuring the width of a river as it flows downstream • Measuring areas • Examples • Measuring the approximate size of parts of a city – CBD, favelas • Street View ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 3.4

  36. 3.5 Google SketchUp ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley http://sketchup.google.com/ 3.5

  37. 3.6 GE-Graph • Allows you to plot graphs onto GoogleEarth ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 3.6

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  44. 4 GE promoting Geography • Get a GE-edited school map onto the school website • Get pupils to send in kmls of their holidays and loop these on projectors on parents evenings • Create kmls for school trips (foreign exchanges, World Challenge, deparment trips etc) • Look at GE-Graph links with Maths and SketchUp links with IT/Art/Tech ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 4

  45. 5 Concluding remarks 5.1 Lesson ideas 5.2 Helpful Hints 5.3 Where to find out more about GE 5.4 Concluding remarks 5.5 Questions ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 5

  46. 5.1 Lesson Ideas 5.1.1 Virtual Autobiography • Pupils create a virtual autobiography • Attach placemarks to important locations • Edit the placemarks to include text or images • This could be done for their summer holidays • Or the geography fieldtrip they’ve just been on ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 5.1

  47. 5.1 Lesson Ideas 5.1.2 Researching on location • Let pupils use all GE layers to discover information about an area before studying it ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 5.1

  48. 5.1 Lesson Ideas 5.1.3 Journey down a river • Follow a river from its mouth to the source • Describe how the river changes • What land uses are found? • Use the ruler to measure widths • What altitudes? ‘Google Earth: Practical Ideas’Lecture for the GA conference 09/04/10 James Riley 5.1

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