Google Maps and Google Earth

Google Maps is mapping tool. In addition to driving directions and local business information, Google Maps also provides terrain maps, satellite imagery,and (in places) a 360 degree photographic“street view” of the real world. Using the “MyMaps” feature students and teachers can also collaborate to create their own custom maps by adding new place markers that include text, images, and video. Custom Google Maps can be shared by copying a simple web link or embedding the map in a class website.

My Map IdeasElementary. Teach mapping skills and community service. Have students create a school tour to post on the school website for families new to the neighborhood. Indicate everything from where the main office is located to where the library, the cafeteria, and the bathrooms are. Include pictures of the principal, the front of the school and the playground equipment.

Middle School. Document that geology field trip! Students can then post the annotated map with photos to a class blog to share the experience with the rest of the world. See: http://class222.googlepages.com/ geology unit.

High School. Create an emergency disaster map for your town’s website. Include locations for police services, hospitals, evacuation centers and routes.

My Maps

This was a sample map that was shown to students and then they created their own.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TftFnot5uXw

Time to download Google Earth 5.0!!

earth.google.com

 

Placemarks

Layers

 

** It will be easier to uncheck all layers before starting your

Google Map search**

This provides a variety of data point of

geographic interests that you can select to

display over your viewing area. This includes points of

interest as well as map, road, terrain, and even

building data.

Add a placemark

Add Path

Add Polygon

Image Overlay

Record a Tour

Historical Imagery

Sunlight

Sky

You can embed a YouTube video or any video into a

Google Earth place marker. You can embed a street view

from Google Maps into a website.

Embedding

•Art History - Search for photos and user-created maps showing famous museums.•Biology & Ecology - Track routes of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe Forest. janegoodall.org•Environmental Science & Climatology

-Have students check Alaska's global warming problems. See how the Sierra Club used Google Earth to depict this problem at sierraclub.org/arctic/maps -Use this Google Maps (earthquakes.tafoni.net) to locate and learn about recent earthquakes around the world

•Geology - Find images, links, and descriptions, with information about thousands of volcanoes around the globe, thanks to organizations like the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/globallists.cfm?listpage=googleearth) •Global Awareness - Study the Crisis in Darfur with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's unprecedented project•History: Explore Tutankhamun's Tomb. or Take a virtual tour of the 21 California Missions. •Literature & Humanities - Bring class or contemporary tales to life with Google LitTrips, or have your students scout film shoot locations like this teacher did with The Golden Compass. (http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/northernlights)•Math - Explore distance, velocity, and wave properties of tsunamis.

IDEAS

Google for Educators google.com/educators/p_earth.html

Google Earth Lessons - gelessons.com

Geo in the Classroom google.com/educators/geo.html

Google Lit Trips googlelittrips.com

Life Photos images.google.com/hosted/life

Google Earth Gallery earth.google.com then click on Gallery!It will down load in a KML or KMZ file.

Resources

QUESTIONS??