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Engaging Google Earth Challenges for Active Learning

Spark students' curiosity and combat boredom with fun Google Earth challenges! Explore iconic locations like the homes of world leaders, investigate genocide, discover cool architecture, and make digital journeys through stories. Utilize unique layers or videos to illustrate concepts, engage with literature, and promote cultural understanding. Capture your exploration through screenshots, create scavenger hunts, and develop literary maps. These challenges not only enhance geographic literacy but also encourage creative thinking, making geography and history come alive for students.

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Engaging Google Earth Challenges for Active Learning

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  1. Google Earth– Challenge Cards To be used in case of turbulence, boredom, or students going on autopilot…

  2. Challenge Locate/fly to the home of the Prime Minister of England, the President of the USA, and Enid Blyton…

  3. Challenge • Add an image – appropriately - to your google map. An individual – a map on top of a map…

  4. Challenge • Go to Mars and check it out– just leave me alone

  5. Challenge • Find a cool looking KMZ or is it a KML – anyway it begins with K-- data source– download--- and place in google earth and let me know what happens..

  6. Challenge • Find /Use three different layers or video to teach a concept in Google maps

  7. Challenge • Find a way to explore the concept of genocide using Google maps

  8. Challenge • Take a trip to your favorite sites -4 sites min- related to you interests– music, art, sport, people, culture, history, literature– and record it for posterity (when I see that would it always makes me think of bottoms– why?)

  9. Challenge Find examples of how to create a digital journey for a story?  

  10. Challenge • Go visit some cool architecture or natural wonders and take some screen shots to prove you have been there

  11. Challenge • Find examples of how music, video, images, layers have been used by the GE community

  12. Challenges • Take some screen shots using google earth that you can use to help students develop a geographic eye with regard to People, Places and Environment.

  13. Challenge • Find examples of political, social, economic cultural protests/dissent, citizen journalism, cultural expression, or examples of the concept of the global community and living with difference.

  14. Challenge • Find and label and tour the capitals of the G 20 or at least some of them– (it used to be the G8)

  15. Challenge • Create a scavenger hunt to support students’ reading of a (grade-appropriate) piece of literature.

  16. Challenge • Embed poems at five intentionally selected sites to support students’ found poetry writing.

  17. Challenge • Find at least four sites that would support/evoke/excite students’ writing of place narratives. Create an exemplar text.

  18. Challenge • Create a scavenger hunt that takes students on a journey that explores metaphor (middle level).

  19. Challenge • Create a scavenger hunt that takes students on a journey that explores five poetic devices.

  20. Challenge • Create a literary map that either captures a period, the works of an author, or key works tied to a particular region or culture.

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