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what is google earth voyager?
what is google earth voyager?
Google Earth's Voyager is a showcase of interactive guided tours, quizzes, and layers that aim to help educate everyone about the world, locations near and far. By clicking the ship's wheel icon on Google Earth, you’ll circumnavigate the globe with the Hōkūleʻa using stars, track hurricanes and tropical storms in real time, and find place-based stories authored by partners such as National Geographic and HHMI Biointeractive. Voyager’s curated stories weave in rich media, such as 360 videos and Street View, allowing us to learn about Earth from a new perspective.
Students can tilt and rotate the map, and zoom in wherever they like. They can also see latitude and longitude coordinates and elevation, and can measure distances.
The site is absolutely packed with interactive tools to examine our planet. Kids can view it, measure it, or create and share original content about it. 2D and 3D views switch back and forth between a map feel and an immersive experience. Street View shows ground-level images around towns, and different options show weather, catalog volcanoes, reveal shipwrecks, and more. The Voyager feature highlights points of interest in places around the world and throughout history with gorgeous pre-built tours made by scientists, nonprofits, and other sources. There are also time lapses that show how the Earth has changed over time. Everywhere you look, cool features exist to explore the planet Earth: Search for specific locations and learn facts from the included Knowledge Cards, explore random destinations, or make maps and tours related to any topic across the curriculum with narration, video, and photos.
The Tasks
The Tasks
What better way to connect learning to the real world than to integrate the actual real world into learning? The built-in tours and lessons in the Voyager section include tours related to travel, nature, culture, sports, history, and more, such as taking a trip to a wildlife reserve in Kenya, investigating indigenous cultural heritage in Canada, or hiking through the national parks of North America. Students can also relive the Votes for Women movement or travel along on the Underground Railroad. Younger students can focus on the alphabet by finding ABCs in satellite imagery. Voyager includes guided tours from scientists, nonprofits, and others, such as BBC Earth and National Geographic. Your class can travel back in time and view places to see how they've changed, see how states have voted in past elections, view historical maps, explore world biomes, dive deep into the ocean, or learn how the physical landscape has dictated urban sprawl.
If those ideas aren't enough, here are a few more: Compare the appearance (in 3D!) of volcanoes or use tools to measure their diameter and altitude. Analyze the architecture of European castles, or just look at where famous monarchs lived. View how Las Vegas has changed since 1950. With Street View, travel the narrowest of waterways in Venice, walk the streets of Disneyland Paris, or hike canyons in the United States. For more advanced lessons, build your own tours around the world with the Tour Builder, create a Timelapse to show the change of Earth features over time, or build your own KML files (tutorials are available on the Google website) for even more customization options.
Earn this badge:
Earn this badge:
Review the two short videos to the right to see how you can integrate the actual real world into learning using Google Earth and Voyager.
Take your students on a Google Voyage and explain how it was connected to your curriculum.
Choose a voyage for your class and find at least two more resources to use with your students through the Voyager lessons. Create an interactive lesson using a voyage, quiz, or other resources found within the Google Earth website.
Have the students interact with the lesson that you have created. Share the link with students on Google Classroom.
Take a screenshot of your Google Voyage on your Google Classroom and attach it to the Google Form provided below.
What did you find useful about this site? How did your students respond to the lesson?
Resources:
Resources:
Teaching with Google Earth - National Geographic
20 Google Earth Activities for Students | Bringing the Wow Factor to Your Lessons
*Instructions for taking screenshots on a Chromebook:
Full screen screenshot: Ctrl+windows shift button (looks like a rectangle with two lines next to it; above the 6 key).
Partial screenshot: Ctrl+Shift+windows shift button (looks like a rectangle with two lines next to it; above the 6 key). Click and drag around the area you'd like to grab.
Screenshots will be sent to your Downloads file (small blue circular icon with a file folder inside found in the apps menu -- click the small circle icon in far bottom left corner of Chromebook screen to find the Downloads file).
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Take your students on a Google Voyage and explain how it was connected to your curriculum. Choose a voyage for your class and find at least two more resources to use with your students through the Voyager lessons. Create an interactive lesson using a voyage, quiz, or other resources found within the Google Earth website. Have the students interact with the lesson that you have created. Share the link with students on Google Classroom. Take a screenshot of your Google Voyage on your Google Classroom and attach it to the Google Form provided below. Answer the following questions: What did you find useful about this site? How did your students respond to the lesson?
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