Try-GE

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1. Determine a GoogleEarth Tour that will fit with your unit of instruction (I know, you will have to be very clever with this one!) 2. Create a Tour with at least 7 stops. 3. Post the link on your Unit (with an accompanying lesson).

Attributes of your Google Earth Tour: --it is the product you are using for a lesson within your Unit; --at least 5 stops have embedded pictures in the popup; --at least 3 stops have embedded links to internet sites; --the descriptions must contain information that is INTERESTING and ENGAGING!!!!! --MAKE SURE that you are at the altitude that you want the student to be observing the stop. --each stop must have a questions that can only be answered by observing the Google Earth stop or using information found in one of the layers for that stop.


 * WAIT!** Let's think like a teacher--and to do that, you have to place yourself in the student's position. If you simply create a tour and the student is sitting at a computer going on your tour and they have NOTHING to do and NO questions to answer, how engaged will they be? How will you assess their learning? These are things you MUST START THINKING ABOUT when you design your lessons. So, within the tour, you have to ask students questions that they can only answer by observing the GOOGLE EARTH or finding information in one of the layers of Google Earth (wikipedia, etc.).

I took this idea and developed it into a semester-long game!

Google Earth Game http://googleearthgame.wikispaces.com/Game+Home

Note that the student must answer the question by using observation of Google Earth or using information found in a layer.

Other Resources
Tip Cards http://googleearthgame.wikispaces.com/GE+tip+card

Integration ideas: http://googleearthgame.wikispaces.com/GE+classroom+ideas

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