OHIO LEARNING STANDARDS FOR TECHNOLOGY (2017):

STRAND: Information and Communications Technology

The understanding and application of digital learning tools for accessing, creating, evaluating, applying and communicating ideas and information.

Grade K-2

Grade 3-5

Grade 6-8

Grade 9-12

Topic 3: Use digital learning tools and resources to construct knowledge.

Grade 3-5

• Interpret images, diagrams, maps, graphs, infographics, videos, animations, interactives, etc. in digital learning tools and resources to clarify and add to knowledge.

Grade 6-8

• Analyze and integrate textual, visual, and quantitative information (images, diagrams, maps, graphs, infographics, videos, animations, interactives, etc.) from multiple digital learning tools and resources.

Grade 9-12

• Synthesize textual, visual, and quantitative research and data (images, diagrams, maps, graphs, infographics, videos, animations, interactives, etc.) from a variety of digital learning tools and resources.

LEARNING TARGET(S):

• Google Earth: Navigation

OBJECTIVE:

• The student will research strange images found on Google Earth.

DIRECTIONS:

1. Watch the You Tube videos posted below.
2. Go to Google Earth
3. Look for one or more of these places:

• Missile Test, Circleville, Utah, USA
• Firefox Crop Circle, Dayton, Oregon, USA
• Ocean Liner in the Middle of a City, Hung Hom, China
• The Badlands Guardian, Walsh, Alberta, Canada
• Airplane Graveyard, Tucson, Arizona, USA
• Unexplained Fighter Jet in Car Lot, Ville d’Avray, France
• Massive Rabbit, Artesina, Italy
• The Blood Lake, Baghdad, Iraq
• Satellite Swastika, Coronado, California, USA
• Giant Colonel Sanders, Alamo, Nevada, USA

4. You may also find your own mystery not on the list. For example try these coordinates:

NOTE: Many of these images appear to be something that they are not!

As always, if you have a question about something please ask Mr. Lesnansky!

• -23.527824, 24.72265
• 45°24'28.31"N, 123°0'27.67"W
• 45°25'30.77"N, 122°38'3.77"W
• 40°42'16.47"N, 74° 0'30.56"W

5. Record your results on the Google Form.

6. Good Luck and Have Fun!

SUBMITTED WORK:

• This work is to be submitted using the Google Doc link listed below: (NOTE: Only users in the Brookfield Domain may access this form).
• https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJYF3uC6fyuFZaywOJ3TyVg1OxJsg46tLmCZUoAbegtlVcDQ/viewform

LATE WORK/MAKE-UP ASSIGNMENT:

• If you are absent from school or do not complete the assignment on time, you must print your Google Doc form work to the printer labeled PROD LAB 408 or HS 408. DO NOT SUBMIT THE FORM AS IT IS NOT GRADED AFTER THE INTITAL COLLECTION. The Google Doc will not be graded again only the printed responses will be graded. (NOTE: A point deduction may be enforced for late work not due to an excused absence.)

FURTHER ENRICHMENT AND STUDY:

1. Do a Google Search for other mysteries or anomalies. What did you find?
2. What other places would you like to see on Google Earth?