Google+Earth

Fluency in digital literacy provides another avenue for effective communication.
 * Enduring Understanding**


 * Goal:** Students will interpret, use, and create visual media in ways that advance thinking, decision making, communication, and learning.

Why use Google Earth? Who can use Google Earth? Are we having fun? How can I communicate my passion for an idea?
 * Essential Questions**

Students will be able to create a tour of where they would travel if they could. As the author of this tour, he/she will make a convincing argument about why they would go to the location of choice by choosing images that make others want to go, by providing explanations as to why this location is a desired destination, and by linking additional facts from other websites to complete the viewer's understanding of why the viewer should hope to travel to this destination like the author. Students will be able to describe why and how they could use Google Earth in their content area.
 * Assessment**

Students will be able to navigate the interface by using the controls to go left, right, up down, pan and zoom. Students will be able to work with layers by checking and unchecking boxes that control the different features/layers of Google Earth Students will be able to manipulate the pre-loaded layers and tours. Students will be able to find, download and run teacher and student created tours. Students will be able to place markers, add text, images, and URLs to text boxes. Student will be able to save the journey and send the file to the instructor via gmail.
 * Objectives**

Create a Google Earth journey in which you mark your departure point and your destination. At your destination, you should identify a miniumum of 5 areas of interest that you will visit, find a minimum of 5 actual images to match those areas. These points of interest need to be more than the beach and a bar. They should have some cultural interest and should have explanations that enhance the experience of the visit. //Extending activity:// make the journey into a tour, create a path for the journey, add video to one or more points of interest. Post a discussion thread on the Google Resources Discussion tab identifying how could use Google Earth in your classroom.
 * TASK**

Strategies
1. introduce GE with the video resources and sample lessons from Google Lit Trips and RealMath.org 2. show and do the basic navigation tasks, using layers, taking a tour - [|google-earth-tip-sheet.v2.pdf] 3. show how to search for a location 4. show how to add a marker, add text 5. show Google doc of Hemingway biography 6. show technique for doing images in the Google doc - making the necessary preparations for transfer thru copy paste to GE. 7. show how to create a folder and begin the journey - click once on My Places once, right click, add folder 8. show how to save places and send KMZ file via upload to google docs and gmail - click on your folder, save, save place as, name your work same name as your folder for consistency sake.