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Extreme Weather Installing and Exploring Weather Applications on Google Earth. iLearn Science Session 2. Focusing Questions. What are Weather Applications for Google Earth? How can I download, install, and use Weather Apps with Google Earth?. Instruction. Framing The Session.
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Extreme WeatherInstalling and Exploring Weather Applications on Google Earth iLearn Science Session 2
Focusing Questions • What are Weather Applications for Google Earth? • How can I download, install, and use Weather Apps with Google Earth?
Framing The Session • In this session, we will • Download Weather Apps from Google Earth • Install them • Explore their functions
Teaching • Open Google Earth • Find your Places Task Pane • Find your My Places folder • Select it and: • select Add from Menu Bar • select Folder from menu options • name it Weather Apps
Downloading from the Resource List • On your resource list, locate and find the first URL • Google Weather Apps • Click on the first URL which will take you to the Google Earth Blog • This is where we will be downloading the Weather Apps we will be working with today
Google Earth Blog • Click on the hyperlink in the middle of the paragraph entitled “weather and tracking tools network link” • It will automatically be downloaded into the Temporary Files section on PC’s • Mac’s will download the file to the desktop
Moving the Files • Mac users will need to make Google Earth smaller so you can see your desktop. • Grab the downloaded file gebweather.kml and drag and drop it onto the EARTH in Google Earth. • Now both the PC and Mac users should have the Weather Apps in their Temporary Places Folder
Moving to My Places • Two Options: • Drag and drop them into your Weather Apps folder. • Close Google Earth and it will ask you if you want to save them to your My Places folder. (Say yes.)
Trying It Out • Once you have moved the files into your Weather Apps folder, turn them off. • One by one, turn them on and see how they interact with Google Earth.
Guided Practice • Follow the directions that we just went over and create a folder in your “My Places” task pane • Once you have created the folder, name it “Weather Apps”
Work Time • Download the first two Weather Apps from the hyperlinks on the resource list • Install the Apps and put them in your Weather Apps folder • Manipulate and Explore each application in the packet • Think of Ideas of how to use them in your science class • Add your ideas and thoughts of how to use these in your classroom into the word template you started in Lesson 6.1 • Add more Weather Apps from the list if time permits!
Share • Today we learned how to download and install Google Earth Weather Applications. • You had time to manipulate and explore the different Apps in this packet. • Now, how can you see using them in your class?
Share Idea List • Tool Use
How does this lesson relate to our focusing questions? • Answers
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