Lesson+15

Use this form to plan your Google Earth lesson. You can include links to the locations of specific resources, as necessary. This will enable you to gather all of the components of your lesson in one document, making the construction of the GE tour much easier.


 * 1) The big idea we are working toward understanding is… that scientists were real people who lived in real places and times in history. The stories behind their discoveries and achievements were often as exciting as the discoveries and achievements themselves. With GoogleEarth, we can travel easily to the exact locations where these great events in science happened and see them in vivid detail, along with portraits and Weblinks to more information.


 * 1) Students who complete this tour will be able to… answer the questions associated with the stops on the tour and learn more about some of the prominent figures in science.


 * 1) How much time should it take to complete this GE tour? Left on its own, the 12 stops on this tour will play through in about 2 1/2 minutes. However, the student should pause the tour as it gets close to each yellow pushpin marker, click on the markers, and access the Wikipedia link to answer the questions associated with each marker.


 * 1) For each location, the student will accomplish this task (consider a question to be answered, a clue to be deciphered, a section of a mystery to be revealed, etc.). (I.e., they can’t just go do a place and do nothing!!)


 * 1) My locations / tasks are: Home of Rachel Carson, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Berlin, University of Zurich, Curie Museum, Como Bluff, St. Thomas Abbey, San Cristobal Island, Trinity College, University of Padua, Cairo, Syracuse. Each of these locations features a prominent scientist(s), their portrait, some text and questions, and a link to information to answer the questions. I was told in the assignment instructions to create them in reverse order so they would proceed chronologically, but the new locations didn't file in from the top as I was told, so the tour goes back in time rather than forward.


 * 1) Instructions/Notes for students: ** (this can be cut and pasted into a GE placemark or on a separate document, if that is what you are using) ** Go to the Teaching with Technology page and click on the link to the Great Locations in Scientific History page. Click on the link on that page to get to GoogleEarth. Click on the folder icon in the sidebar to start the tour. Be sure to pause the tour as you approach each stop (click the pause button on the progress bar), then click on the yellow pushpins to access each task.