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Foreign Language: travel to the country, map out the trip, see geography of
countries
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Introduction to the Program:
Reference:
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1. Search panel: Use it to type in places/directions. Contains three (3) tabs which include:
fly to, find businesses, and directions.
2. 3-D viewer: View the globe and its terrain in this window
3. Hide/Show Sidebar: Click on this button to hide or reveal the Search panels (the panel on the
left side of the window).
4. Placemark: Click this button to mark a specific location on the map. This specific location then
can be “clicked and dragged” to your “My Places” folder in the Search panel.
5. Add a polygon:
Click this button to add a polygon to your field of view (a more advanced feature).
6. Add a path: Click this button to add a “path” or lines on the Google Earth Map (a more
advanced feature).
9. Sunlight: Click this button to show the current status of the sun’s angle across the area.
You can even change the time of day!
10. Planet: Click this button to select from three (3) types of view:
14. Navigation Tools: Use these to zoom in/out, change the tilt, and move your viewpoint.
15. Layers panel: Select/deselect these various features that create icons on the earth, showing
points of interest, weather, street views, etc.
16. Places panel: Use this area to save, revisit, organize, and locate points of interest.
You can also create subfolders here. Right click on “My places” and then “add folder”.
17. Add Content: Click this to import exciting content from the KML Gallery
19. Status bar: View coordinate, imagery, and streaming status here.
20. Clock: Click this to see how the current area has changed over time. (icon appears between
sun and polygon icons on the toolbar)
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Task 2: Find your house! See a street view!
3. Once the cross hairs are present, roll your mouse track ball forward to zoom in
further (roll backward to zoom out).
4. On the left side of the screen (sidebar), go to the layers panel (see picture below) and select
street view. What should appear on your screen are small cameras and/or bubbles. When
double-clicked, these will provide you with street views of the road/area. Click the camera
once, and an information window pops up. When finished click on Exit Photo (upper right
corner)
Task 3: Find a local restaurant type. Check out the local traffic.
What roads to take?
1. Go to the layers panel and turn off all the layers options (by un-checking the boxes) except
terrain. This cleans up the 3D view panel.
2. In the search panel (top left of sidebar) click on the “X” (bottom right of search box) to clear
the last search result.
3. Also on the sidebar press the fly to tab. Type in Paris, France.
4. As in the picture above, press the sunlight button. A control window appears in the upper
left corner of the view screen. Click and drag the slide bar button in this panel left/right to
see how the sun is projected to change or has changed since earlier.
6. Mark this area by selecting the Placemark (thumbtack) button at the top of the screen.
Name it as Paris, France in the pop up window. Play around with changing the color of the
thumbtack and color of the label by selecting Style/Color tab in this pop up window. Press
ok at the bottom when you are done.
7. Look at your Places Panel (on the left sidebar). Most likely, this new placemark was put
under the “Sightseeing” folder. Click and drag Paris, France to the My Places folder. It is
now saved for later reference.
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Task 5: Create a tour of the Collesium (and see a 3D view of the local
buildings), the Kremlin, Mt. Fuji, and the Grand Canyon.
Save it to a folder named “World Wide Trip”.
1. Click on Fly to and type in Collesium, Rome. Mark a placemark there. Go to the layers
panel and select 3D buildings. Turn off any other layers that might clutter the view.
2. Using the navigation panel, (upper right corner of viewing screen), zoom in and change the
tilt by pressing the (+) button. Click this until you have a standing street-like view.
3. Change your head/eye direction of view by using the arrow buttons with the eye in the
middle of it. Look left and/or right.
4. Press the arrows on either side of the hand to physically move the area of view in the
navigation panel.
5. Fly to the Kremlin, Mt. Fuji, and the Grand Canyon. Put placemarks at all of these
locations. Again, explore by changing the zoom, tilt, and radial view.
Click and drag each of these placemarks to your My Places folder. Be sure to explore the
“Terrain” features located in the Layers Panel at these sites as well.
6. Right click your My Places folder. Select Add Folder. Title the folder World Wide Trip.
Click and drag the placemarks to this folder. (make sure there’s a check in their boxes)
7. Click back on the World Wide Trip Folder. Under the Places Panel, a play bar will appear.
Click on the little folder looking button. It will say play tour if you hover over it (see picture
above). A tour of each of those places is underway.
8. Save the tour by selecting the disk (save) button at the bottom of the play bar type in a title.
Summary:
Google Earth has a lot of different features. By changing from Earth view to Sky view (using the
planet button on the 3D view panel), Exploration of nebulas, stars and constellations, and even
other planets is possible.
The best way to learn Google Earth is to practice. It seems overwhelming at first but just come up
with little tasks on your own and then explore how to solve them. Listed below are some websites
that might help you in your venture. Best of luck!
Resources:
http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/
http://www.eastchester.k12.ny.us/schools/hs/teachers/fermann/GE.htm
(There is even a link here for a manual for earth science teachers)
http://stevekluge.com/projects/dlesege/dlesegemanual/manual.html
(Designing and creating earth science lessons with google earth)
http://www.googlelittrips.org/ (Google Lit Trips)
http://www.atmoiclearning.com (Mini Google Earth Tutorials)
Username: ncolonie Password: shaker
http://www.oceanleadership.org/classroom/seafloor_expedition
(Ocean floor exploring using Google Earth)
We are by no means experts on Google Earth. However, if you need help later on, you can
send one of us an email and we’ll do our best to help you. Thanks for joining us!