West Tisbury School

1. Read our reports and try out our Explorers' Routes on the NEW Google Earth WEB (It is almost as good as being there!)

2. To use the NEW version of Google Earth, click on the link we supply. The link launches the projects in the new browser version.

3. Or, try out our Explorers' Routes on Google Earth PRO, which means you have to install the PRO version on a computer. We supply a link for you to download Google Earth Pro.

4. The easiest way to view our projects is to use # 1 above.

5. We worked with the art teachers and drew our own explorers. We put the finished images in the projects.

6. Lesson Overview: Essential questions, Lesson Outcomes, Activities, Assessments. Resources and Materials

   • • You will need a browser to view our converted projects in the NEW Google Earth WEB version. Just click the explorer's name/picture, and your browser will launch Google Earth WEB.

     • You will need to have Google Earth PRO installed on your computer to view the KMZ versions. Download the KMZ's and open in Pro.

Google Docs Written By Students And Published

There are different ways to publish student projects. Using Google Docs is an easy way to publish your students' writing.
They can do their research and write their summaries in a Doc. They can add images, hyperlinks, etc., and their documents can be published on a webpage. 

Students on this webpage created Google Earth projects, but they also wrote descriptions of their explorers using Google Docs. They worked with the art teacher and drew pictures of the explorers they were studying.  The pictures were scanned and imported into the documents.  The Docs can be shared as "view only" and linked to webpages.  Or, they can be "published" as a webpage from within Google Docs. When they are published, any changes made to the original document can also be updated automatically without having to re-publish the Doc.  The URL's for the "view only" Docs or the "published" Docs can be used on websites made by the teachers, for visitors to the website, to access.

The examples below are from the actual projects the students did above. They wrote their descriptions on Docs, included their sources, scanned their drawings of the explorers, imported them into the Docs, then did their projects in Google Earth. If you prefer to do projects using only essays and Docs, see the links below for ideas.

Please note: Below is a mix of "published" Docs and "view only" Docs so you can see how they open in your browser.
You can use either method.  It's useful to note that Docs can also be published as "stand alone" webpages, which are useful for educators if they do not have class websites.

• Meriwether Lewis by Lexi

• Hernando Cortez by Aaron

• Vasco da Gama by Bo

• Henry Hudson by Faith

• Jacques Cousteau by Sarah A.

• David Livingston by Claudia

• James Cook by Issy

• Ferdinand Magellan by Joseph

• Samuel de Champlain by Sam E.