Google+Earth+and+Maps

**Google Earth and Maps**

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**Google Earth Tours:**  Google Earth Tours can be created for a variety of purposes.
 * Teachers sharing locations that have to do with a new unit
 * Teachers sharing tours of continents, ocean, landforms, etc. that will be studied in class
 * Scavenger hunts to explore different places.
 * Student created tours of landforms, cities, countries, time zones and just about any other map related concept
 * Student created tours to tell a story about and adventure.
 * Student created tours to tell about their community, town or city.

**Tours can include:**
 *  Placemarks
 *  Descriptions of places
 *  Pictures of places
 *  Audio telling about places
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;"> Music
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;"> Layers, 3-D Buildings, and many other special features
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;"> Embedded projects such as VoicThreads for certain places

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">**Creating a Google Tour:**

====<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;"> 1. On Toolbar click on Add -> Folder :: Give it a name and description ==== ====<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">2. Zoom to the location you wish to start with. Select/deselect the layers as desired. ====

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">3. Click on the placemark icon on the toolbar.
====<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">4. Give the placemark a name and description (icon can be changed) ==== ====<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">5. Fly to next placemark and orient the earth in the direction you wish to fly into this placemark. ==== ====<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">6. Repeat steps 2-4 until you have created all the placemarks you want. ==== ====<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">7. Click and drag the placemarks into the folder, arrange them in the order you wish. ==== ====<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">8. To play a tour, click on the folder icon w/ the play button. ====

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;"> *to add a picture to a placemark, locate the copyright friendly image, use Google advanced image search and choose 'labeled for reuse'. Find an appropriate image and click on 'full-size image'. Copy the url and paste into the Placemark description using the following html code: <img src="paste url here"> Be sure to include attribution to the image.

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<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Google Earth Tutorials

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Google Moon

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Google Sky

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Google Earth-Ocean

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Google Earth Lit Trips

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Google Earth Lesson Ideas

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Student Projects using Google Earth

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Project in Google Maps

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Google Maps Math Project