Google Earth Tutorial1. Type your home address in the fly to box. Zoom in and take a look around. What season was it

when the satellite image was taken? ______________________________

2. Turn on the street view layer. Double click on a camera to enter the street view mode. Walk down the street by clicking on cameras that appear in front of you. What season of the year was it when the pictures were taken? ______________________________

3. Click exit photo in the upper right hand corner of the screen and zoom out until you can see all of Minnesota.

4. Turn off street view to get rid of the camera icons.

5. Turn on the 3D Buildings layer and fly to downtown Minneapolis. Zoom in so you are looking at the downtown area from about 5000 feet up (look in the lower right corner of the screen to check your eye altitude).

6. Hold down the shift key, the left button on your mouse (or touch pad) and pull the mouse toward yourself. The view of the screen should switch from a bird’s eye perspective to a street view. Explore the area from different perspectives.

7. Return to a bird’s eye view of the downtown area.

8. Zoom out so you are looking at downtown Minneapolis from approximately 10,000 feet. Turn on the Panaramio layer. Single click on some of the blue icons to see photos that others have posted.

9. Click on the + in front of Gallery in the layers section to open the folder. Turn on the New York Times layer. Zoom out to find the article closest to Minneapolis? What is the main focus of the article?

10. Zoom out farther and find a New York Times article about something happening somewhere in Africa. What is the location of the article? What is the main focus of the article?

11. Return to the United States. Deselect the New York Times layer and turn on the Rumsey Historical Maps layer. Click once on a historical map icon and open an overlay (click on the image of the historical map in the pop-up window to open the overlay). You will need to zoom into the relevant area to see the map.

12. Look in the Places box (immediately above the layers box) and you will see the name of the map overlay you just opened. Notice that it is currently stored in a folder called, Temporary Places. Save it by dragging it up to the My Places folder. Turn off the map layer by clicking in the box in front of its name. (You can turn it on and off as needed by clicking in this box)

13. Explore three additional layers. List the layer below and be prepared to explain how you might use the layer in your social studies classroom?

Creating a Placemark

Go to http://earth.google.com/intl/en/outreach/tutorial_annotate.html#addplacemarks and read the tutorial on how to create a placemark.

Put a placemark at the base of the Eifel Tower in Paris.

Put a placemark near the front door to the Louvre in Paris.

Click ruler on the toolbar. How far is the Eifel Tower from the Louvre? ________ miles (as the crow flies)

Downloading and viewing a Google Earth Tour

1. Go to the Google Earth website and click on Gallery (http://earth.google.com/) 2. Locate and click on the College Basketball Tournament 2010 (you will be asked if you want the

computer to open the file in Google Earth…click “ok”)3. Move the tournament file to the My Places folder.4. Turn on the file by clicking in the box. 5. Start the tour by clicking the play button (it’s located immediately under the Places window)

6. Explore the gallery and download/watch additional tours you think might be helpful to you in the teaching of middle school social studies. Select one tour to share.

Lesson Review Location, Location, Location: A New Stadium for Rotherham United (http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/livinggeography/rotherham/locatinganewstadium/)

1. Download and look at the KML file in Google Earth. Read all of the relevant documents.2. How well does this lesson align with the tenets of powerful social studies (i.e., meaningful,

active, value-based, integrative, and challenging)?3. Is Google Earth used effectively in this lesson? Explain.

Using Google Earth in the elementary classroom Identify two geography concepts or skills you might teach using Google Earth and briefly describe the activities you might develop to teach these concepts or skills.