Date(s): 02/02/2009 to 02/02/2009
Time: 4:30pm to 6:30pm

Description:
In this workshop for K-16 teachers, you will learn how to use Google Earth as a tool in your classroom for both you and your students. You can use Google Earth demos to get your students excited about geography, and use different Google Earth layers to study economics, demographics, and transportation in specific contexts. For instance:

* you can use real-time coordinates to demonstrate distance calculations and verify the results using the measurement tools;
* view tectonic plate-shift evidence by examining whole continents, mountain ranges and areas of volcanic activity;
* study impact craters, dry lake beds and other major land forms.

Students can also use Google Earth to explore topics like the progress of human civilization, the growth of cities, the impact of civilization on the natural environment, and the impact of natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Using Google SketchUp and historic overlays, students can recreate entire ancient cities. The only limit to Google Earth's classroom uses is your imagination.

Here are some other ideas for using Google Earth in your classroom:

* Biology: Track routes of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe Forest.
* Ecology: Create a short quiz.
* Environmental Science: Have students check Alaska's global warming problems.
* Geology: Find images, links, and descriptions, with information about thousands of volcanoes around the globe, thanks to organizations like the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program.
* Global Awareness: Study the Crisis in Darfur with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's unprecedented project.
* History: Explore Tutankhamun's Tomb.
* Humanities: Have your students scout film shoot locations with The Golden Compass.
* Literature: Bring class or contemporary tales to life with Google LitTrips.
* Math: Explore distance, velocity, and wave properties of tsunamis.

Registration is free. Space is limited.

Location:

San Diego Supercomputer Center Room 279 University of California, San Diego San Diego, California

Contact Information:
Please contact Ange Mason at 858-534-5064 or amason@ucsd.edu to reserve your space.


Event Home Page: http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech

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