Ohio
Virtual Tour: Google Earth
Google Earth Measurement Tour of Ohio
To help you use Google Earth in your
class, we have developed a measurement activity. The activity
takes the students
around Ohio to visit, and measure, several Ohio locations.
Each location addresses a different measurement topic,
as explained below. You can open the measurement in two
ways.
From the Internet:
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Select the link for
the Google Earth Measurement
Activity.
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Google Earth will
automatically open and load the activity into the “Places” panel.
From the
CD:
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Start Google Earth.
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Select “File” and then “Open.”
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Browse
to the CD for this unit and locate the file named “mto.kmz.”
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Open
that file.
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The activity will load into
the “Places” panel.
You
can work through the activity by navigating through
each item in the Measurement Tour of Ohio folder in
the “Places” panel.
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Use the plus and
minus buttons to expand the list of places as needed.
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For each item, double-click
its name in the “Places” panel.
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Google
Earth will now fly you to that location.
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On the globe,
select the location’s placemark
icon to get instructions for that location.
Below is
a brief explanation of the content covered in the “Measurement
Tour of Ohio.”
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Wright-Patterson Air Force Bace — Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base is improving its runways. They need
to replace asphalt with concrete — and they
need your help. Find the volume of concrete and
stones needed
to complete
the job.
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Farmland — Travel to the
Toledo area and measure the area of farmland, using
skills
for estimating the
area of an irregular shape.
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An Amusement Park Arcade — Next
they fly down to Cincinnati and Kings Island
Amusement Park. Here
they take measurements of the giant fountain
at the entrance,
gaining an understanding of the perimeter of
a rectangle and volume of a rectangular prism.
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Landfill — Then
they head up to Akron and visit a landfill and
water treatment plant to measure
holding
tanks. The topics covered are measuring the radius,
diameter, circumference and area of a circle.
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The
Ohio State University Football Stadium — Next
it is off to Columbus and The Ohio State University
football stadium, where students measure the
length of the field
and convert measurements between customary units.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — The
last stop is in Cleveland at the Rock and Roll Hall
of
Fame. Because
of its unique design, students are able to
take measurements of its glass walls, gaining
practice in
finding the
area of a triangle.
- Conclusion — At
the end of the activity, students are encouraged
to think of more ways such as the following
that Google Earth could be used to do measurements:
Find
geometical shapes from land, roads and buildings
Measure
the perimeter, area or volume of those shapes
Measure
distances between locations and determine the time
it would take to travel
or the cost it would take
for gas
Map out a walking path of
a neighborhood and determine the length
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