1. Enhancing Geography Teaching
and Learning Using
Google Earth
Paul Cornish, Director of Humanities
The Coopers’ Company and Coborn School
pch@cooperscoborn.co.uk
cornishpaul@hotmail.co.uk

2. 1. Mapping data using 3D
polygons
2. Embedding multimedia for
geographical enquiry
3. Fieldwork data
presentation/ analysis
4. Creating Global Maps
5. GE Graphs

3. Google Outreach
http://youtu.be/jqiCWcBsHP4?h
d=1

4. Examples
• Amazon Suri Tribe Tour
• Local/ National year 7 skills
• World Cup 2010
• Somalia Pirate Attacks
• Tectonics
• Biomes (Multimedia Toolkit)
• London Olympics (Multimedia Toolkit)

5. 1. Crime in London
Using polygons to map data.
Skills:
• Polygons- altitude and colour
• Overlay maps
See instruction sheet.

6. 2. Madagascar Enquiry
Embedding multimedia into Google
Earth
Skills:
• Snapshot view
• Embedding video, photos and
youtube

7. Embedding Photos into GE
From Flickr.com (photo sharing website):
1. In GE, create a place mark
2. Find the photo you want
to use and click ‘Share’
3. Copy the HTML code
4. Paste into the place mark
5. Name the place mark
accordingly and add text
6. Snapshot view

8. Embedding Videos into GE
From Youtube or Vimeo (video sharing websites):
1. In GE, create a place mark
2. Find the video you want
to use and click ‘Share’
and then ‘embed’
3. Copy the HTML code
4. Paste into the place mark
5. Name the place mark
accordingly and add text
6. Snapshot view

9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeNEysn4VC8&list=UU_WsH
1uja0rvLetLJXYbQmw&index=14&feature=plcp

10. Embedding Audio into GE
From Audioboo.fm (audio sharing website):
1. Use the Audioboo website to search for audio or
create your own using the iPhone app.
2. In GE, create a place mark
3. Find the audio and
click ‘embed’
4. Click ‘more options’
and choose ‘if all else fails’
5. Copy the HTML code
6. Paste into the place mark
7. Name the place mark accordingly
and add text
8. Snapshot view

11. Other Embedding Options
• www.slideshare.net (ppt & word)
• www.360cities.net (panoroamas)
• Google docs (files)
• Hotmail Skydrive (files)
• www.bbc.co.uk (some videos)
• www.scribd.com (ppt & word)
+ many other news websites

12. Snapshot View
A snapshot view enables
Google Earth to zoom into
a pre-chosen angle to show
video, photo or audio files
1. Choose the angle and
altitude for your place mark
2. Either right click on the file
in the ‘places menu’ or right
click on the place mark
3. Click ‘snapshot view’

13. Rosewood Logging Investigation
• Geographical Enquiry based on the recent
BBC Natural World programme.
• Investigating the links between Rosewood
deforestation in Madagascar’s National
Parks, China and Gibson Guitars, USA.
• Geo-located photos, video, audio and
documents.

14. Rosewood Logging Investigation
How can Google Earth provide improved
geographical knowledge:
– Core (the geography found in an Atlas)
– Content (Concepts)
– Procedural (Enquiry and investigation)
compared with existing paper based
resources?

15. Application
• Case studies
• Fieldwork preparation/ follow up
• Virtual fieldwork
• Geographical Enquiry
• Comparing places

16. 3. Coastal Fieldwork
Linking primary and secondary data
Skills:
• History mode
• Overlays
• GE Graph
• Polygons

17. 4. Global Map Generator
• Thematic mapping
engine: http://thematicmapping.or
g/engine/
• Kml
factbook: http://www.kmlfactbook.
org

18. 5. GE Graphs
Presenting data using GE Graph
software
Skills:
• Primary data presentation
• Secondary Data presentation