Free GE Geography Case Studies

[Andy Funnell]

Hello all,

I wanted to make you all aware of www.earthcasestudies.com

This is a simple site with the vision of it becoming a 'one-stop shop' for teachers of geography to access free high quality tours to various locations.

A large part of the UK-based Geography curriculum requires us to teach 'case studies' which explore specific locations in depth. Hopefully they give students a greater sense of place of the world and also help them to apply the concepts and theories that they have learned. What better way than to use the amazing powers of Google Earth to launch students into their case study locations!

The site is certainly growing, with more and more geography teachers making high quality case studies using the Projects function in Google Earth. Teachers simply send me the link and I stick it up on the site, where anyone else can download the link or KML file and edit for their own teaching. The feedback is very positive indeed as case studies can take a long time for teachers to plan and prepare for. Having these readily available is making a huge difference.

I would be delighted to hear from you if you have any comments/ideas/feedback. I received three very different projects in the past three days (from three different colleagues) so it is certainly going somewhere. Thank you Google Earth for enhancing our case studies in Geography!

Andy

[Charles Carrigan]

Hi Andy,

I spent some time just now looking through your earth case studies website.  I love what you're doing here to help get students more excited about exploring the world using Google Earth.  I've used it some with my University geoscience students, and I've started putting together some of my own presentations on topics using it.  Can I ask, are there specific educational elements that you are looking for within a case study in order for it to be useful? 

Best,

Charles

[Hugh Davidson]

Hugh Davidson here, and I want to join in on the Group conversation Andy and Charles started, and their concepts and approach in using Google Earth in the classroom .

I am very appreciative of Andy's case study approach as a comparative model for my own efforts.

After subscribing to the GE Education Community over the last months I consider this Group to be the best-informed peer-review forum I have available, and as I proceed in developing my own GE curriculum I will weigh in or comment as seems appropriate. 

 By way of introduction & a bit of background

I am the acting Assistant for GIS for the Special Collections and Archives Division at the Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University. I am also an Instructor in History. For just over a year I have been applying ArcGIS and Its StoryMap application to SCA Collections, which are heavily weighted toward agriculture and allied sciences, the natural resources industry and environmental management and engineering. We anticipate we will have a number of StoryMap tales on the web this year, which I will announce here when digitally published. However, in the second phase of my project I plan on advancing our effort using the Google Earth platform versions, particularly Google Earth Pro 

 Google Earth Pro for the desktop  (one of three Google Earth versions at: https://www.google.com/earth/versions/ )

 After that initial ArcGIS production is done, I am returning back to writing a Guidebook for using Google Earth desktop versions tied to a case study approach much like Andy has set up. 

I am particularly taken with testing the new Google SITES application as a web development platform, and undertaking a SITES mission to test how Google Earth Storytelling tools and techniques can be melded with Google Earth map, aerial imagery and Tour production.

Hugh Davidson

Registered to this forum via my Google account email above

Assistant for GIS

Special Collections and Archives Division (SCA)

Utah State University (USU), Merrill-Cazier Library

Logan, Utah, USA

[Marie-Louise Lawrence]

Thank you for sharing all of this with us.  

Mimi Lawrence

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[Ogata David]

Hi all.

I'm excited about this irresistible geography tool.

In our geography curriculum in Kenya we have such case studies as Comparison of sports of Mombasa and Amsterdam, Urbanization of Nairobi and New York, Land Reclamation of Mwea, Yala, Ahero irrigation schemes compared to The Polder of Netherlands & tourism in Kenya vs Switzerland just to mention a few. 

I hope to get the help I need on the case studies.

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[Ogata David]

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