Monday, July 21, 2008
Summer camp, Google Earth style!
Posted by Tina Ornduff, Google Earth Education team
Last week, 18 Googlers brought their 9-12 year old kids to our Mountain View headquarters to spend their week learning with Google Earth and all the other geo tools. By the end of the week, the "Geo Camp" participants had mastered Google Earth, Maps, and Docs, and used these tools to research environmental issues, virtually tour the planet (and universe), and collaborate to build sophisticated presentations on habitats around the world.
I'm not sure who had more fun -- the teachers or the kids! As the week came to a close, we asked them all to reflect back on what they had learned, and I just can't help but share some of their responses:
I didn't know I could ____ with Google Earth
Posted by Tina Ornduff, Google Earth Education team 
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via Google LatLong by elaine on 7/21/08
Last week, 18 Googlers brought their 9-12 year old kids to our Mountain View headquarters to spend their week learning with Google Earth and all the other geo tools. By the end of the week, the "Geo Camp" participants had mastered Google Earth, Maps, and Docs, and used these tools to research environmental issues, virtually tour the planet (and universe), and collaborate to build sophisticated presentations on habitats around the world.
I'm not sure who had more fun -- the teachers or the kids! As the week came to a close, we asked them all to reflect back on what they had learned, and I just can't help but share some of their responses:I didn't know I could ____ with Google Earth
- fly (Matt, 6th grader)
- see all the rides at Disney World (Gwen, 4th grader)
- learn about endangered animals (Aditya, 7th grader)
- the Space Needle (Jack, 7th grader)
- the Empire State Building (Jake)
- the entire universe (Andrew, 6th grader)
- find a place to go on vacation (Nick, 5th grader)
- share global awareness about different countries to other people (Esha, 9th grader)
- look at other galaxies, and see if there's traffic (Aditya, 7th grader)
- build more SketchUp buildings (Erik, 5th grader)
- create a ship simulator in which you could be the captain of a ship (Ashna)
- make a driving feature so people could pretend to drive on roads (Warren, 7th grader)
Posted by Tina Ornduff, Google Earth Education team
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