Melissa
- Nov 19, 2019
- 6 min read

Google Earth Experience Outline

Updated: Dec 10, 2019

(For Warning: As you are exploring Google Earth online, you may become lost; use this outline to help keep track of where you are exploring.)

There are four (4) main sections to Google Earth:

a- Overview b- Earth Version, c- Resources, and d- More From Earth

(Difference between Google Earth and Google Studio:

Earth- enables you to travel and learn about the world. Studio- is used to animate geospatial information to create still and video content)

To use Google Earth Education, find “c. Recourses: ii ” then click “Google Earth Education”.

A. Overview

Overview introduces you to how the web version and phone version allows you to explore Earth; along with 5 sample options that will launch “Earth” in Education:

i. Catching Carmen Sandiego
ii. Earth View
iii. This is Home
iv. Crab Migration on Christmas Island
v. Reading ABC’s from Space

Earth Version give you three options to explore Google Earth: on the web, with an app on your phone, or on your desktop. Each version does have “Earth”; however, only the desktop version allows you to create maps with advanced tools.

C. Recourses

Recources gives you three options:

1. Google Earth Outreach ‘…benefit organizations with tools like Google Earth to make social and environmental impact.” Tabs for Outreach applications include:

1. Tools – 8 tools to be able “…to take action to change the world.

2. Learn- 4 topics with subtopic step-by-step tutorials for map making

3. Get Inspired-how organizations used “…tools for social and environmental work and the impact they had.”

4. Special Projects- “…helping to solve global challenges through data, awareness, and tool.”

2. Google Earth Education uses Google Geo Tools “…as a fundamental life skill for students and educators everywhere.” 5 tabs are used to explore what Google Earth Education has to offer:

1. Home Page: 3 sample options of how to use Google Earth with Education:

a. Guidelines in Earth w/ Carmon Sandiego (latitude and longitude)

i. Classroom Activity

ii. Good Luck Gumshoe

b. Immerse Global Imagery Street View 360-degree Imagery

i. View Street View’s Best in Earth

ii. Visit the Street View Gallery and other options:

1. View Gallery

2. Contribute to Street View by:

a. Get Started with Street View

b. Get Street View for IOS

c. Get Street View for Android

d. Choose a Street View Product

c. Timelapse (satellite images through space and time)

i. View Timelapse and other options

1. Data Set

2. Facts

3. Timelapse

4. Case Studies

5. Platform

6. Blog

7. Sign up

ii. Life Cycle of Water

2. Explore Earth offers Interactive Stories from Around the World with:

a. Earth Voyager- visualization and geospatial storytelling by using Street View. To open Voyager click here. Voyager topics:

i. Editor’s Pick

ii. Games

iii. Layers

iv. Street View

v. Nature

vi. Culture

vii. Travel

viii. Education

b. 5 possible Educational Activities

i. Passport to Social Studies Guiding Questions

ii. Passport to ELA Guiding Questions

iii. Passport to Math Guiding Questions and Math and Architecture: Circular Structures

iv. Passport to Geography Guiding Questions and Take a Quiz on Natural Wonders

c. National Geographic Society and Google Earth Activities

i. A Storytelling Odyssey: Join the Journey and Classroom Activities

ii. Evidence on Earth: Writing Exercise Guide and Science in the Natural World

iii. Earth Energy for Elementary Students: Writing Exercise Guide and How Wind Becomes Electricity

iv. Expanding Literacy Horizons: Writing Exercise Guide and Fairy Tales from Around the World

d. Explore other Voyage Stories

i. Finding Home: See Saroo’s Journey and Classroom Activity

ii. ABC’s from Space: View from Earth and Classroom Activity

iii. This is Home: Visit Traditional Homes and Classroom Activity

iv. Guided by the Stars: Voyage with Hokule’a

3. Inspiration turns students into explorers, storytellers, cartographers by using Google Earth and other Geo Tools by

a. Exploration using the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button extension (needs to be added) and Voyager’s stories, like Voyage Around the World with the Traditional Polynesian Voyaging Canoe: Hokule’a

b. Storytelling using Tour Building and Timelapse, plus See How Teacher Planned His Trip to San Francisco

c. Mapping to become cartographers by charting, plotting, planning, and surveying areas by creating My Maps and follow an Antarctic Expedition

d. Immersion with imagination using Street View and virtual reality viewers like Cardboard for 360 degree views by downloading Expeditions app or learning information from Expedition Help; plus either watch the videos on Expeditions: Go Places the School Bus Can’t Go, or Expeditions AR- Bringing the World into the Classroom or pick from over 900 VR Expeditions or 100 AR Expeditions.