Today you had the opportunity to use Google Earth and create a “tour”. Save your tour as a .kml file and then email it to the group so others can take your tour as well.
After you’ve taken a few tours, feel free to leave your comments and questions at this blog for the benefit of the group.
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Welcome to Earth, Google Earth that is!
How do you like it?
Today you used a new tool on the computers to look at your planet like never before. What did you think? Did you like it? Leave a comment here with your personal reflection about using Google Earth. Be sure to explain:
1. what you did or did not like about Google Earth
2. how you think you could use it in the future
3. what is one place you would like to visit the next time you use this program
Click on the comments link below, and sign in with your student number from your class, there’s no need to put your name on the “blog”. Your comments will be posted later today for you to review in your classroom.
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It’s a long way to go from High Rock in Cascade, Maryland all the way down to Point of Rocks. Just how far is it in miles? What about by bus?
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Death Valley or the Tennessee River Valley? Which one would you rather live in? Why?
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… and it was really, really, really, cold!
Mount Everest is probably a lot colder then Sugar Loaf, but sugar loaf is “sweeter”. But how tall is it? In your reading you found the height of Mount Everest. Now what’s your guess on the height of Sugar Loaf?
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Big, giant, mountainous rocks that exist all by themselves. That’s basically what a monodnock is. But, which one is bigger? What did you find when you measured them?
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You know we’d love to take you to Grand Canyon to see all of the beauty that exist here in one spot. After looking at the picture of Angel’s Window, what do you see in the rocks? Why do they look like layers? What do you think caused all of this?
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So, what do you think about Hawaii? I don’t know, Alaska.
After looking at the Mauna Loa volcano, what did you learn? Tell us what kind of volcano it is, how often it erupts, and perhaps you can even tell us the difference between magma and lava!
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After using Google Earth to look at the town of Point of Rocks, you probably saw several different forms of transportation running through this area. There are train tracks, highways, and even a river! If you had to guess why people built a town in this spot, what do you would be their reason for living here? What kind of dangers would they face living here?
Click on “comments” to share your thoughts.
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