Google Earth– Challenge Cards

To be used in case of turbulence, boredom, or students going on

autopilot…

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Locate/fly to the home of the Prime Minister of England, the President of the USA, and Enid Blyton…

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• Add an image – appropriately - to your google map. An individual – a map on top of a map…

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• Go to Mars and check it out– just leave me alone

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• Find a cool looking KMZ or is it a KML – anyway it begins with K-- data source– download--- and place in google earth and let me know what happens..

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• Find /Use three different layers or video to teach a concept in Google maps

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• Find a way to explore the concept of genocide using Google maps

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• Take a trip to your favorite sites -4 sites min- related to you interests– music, art, sport, people, culture, history, literature– and record it for posterity (when I see that would it always makes me think of bottoms– why?)

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Find examples of how to create a digital journey for a story?

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• Go visit some cool architecture or natural wonders and take some screen shots to prove you have been there

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• Find examples of how music, video, images, layers have been used by the GE community

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• Take some screen shots using google earth that you can use to help students develop a geographic eye with regard to People, Places and Environment.

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• Find examples of political, social, economic cultural protests/dissent, citizen journalism, cultural expression, or examples of the concept of the global community and living with difference.

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• Find and label and tour the capitals of the G 20 or at least some of them– (it used to be the G8)

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• Create a scavenger hunt to support students’ reading of a (grade-appropriate) piece of literature.

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• Embed poems at five intentionally selected sites to support students’ found poetry writing.

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• Find at least four sites that would support/evoke/excite students’ writing of place narratives. Create an exemplar text.

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• Create a scavenger hunt that takes students on a journey that explores metaphor (middle level).

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• Create a scavenger hunt that takes students on a journey that explores five poetic devices.

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• Create a literary map that either captures a period, the works of an author, or key works tied to a particular region or culture.