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What is a Google Earth Tour & How Can I Use It?

Sample Google Earth Tour Part I

Sample Google Earth Tour Part II

Assignment: Create a Tour in Google Earth

For this assignment you, or you and a partner, are to create a tour in Google Earth. What are some ideas for touring? Check these out:

Places You Have Been & Places You Want to Go
Immigration Story of Your Family
Major League Baseball Stadiums (Or, Soccer, Football, etc.)
Tour the locations of a favorite novel (It would have to be one that involved lots of different settings.)
Visit the 7 Wonders of the World! (There are more than 7...check this out.)
Tour the stars, outer space, etc.
Popular landmarks in our country or others
Trace the travels of Lewis and Clark...or how about the Donner Party?
Tour the Mayan ruins...the Pyramids...or...?
Volcanoes
Create your own idea for a tour...just check in with me.

How to get started:

After you have chosen which tour you will create, list the exact locations where you will travel.
You are required to create at least six placemarks for your tour.
Write a script for your tour so that you can read it while recording. No, "umm...like, dude," etc., is acceptable.
You will need to embed a photo in each of your placemarks. (You will probably want to use Photoshop; be sure to save your pics as jpgs in your Google Earth Tour folder.)
You will need to paste/embed text in each of your placemarks.
Watch the video below. It takes you through the two major parts of creating a tour.
1.Part 1: Making the Placemarks
2. Part 2:Recording and saving the Tour
How to Embed Your Pics Into Your Google Earth Tour
And...How to Embed HTML