Summer+Assignments

**Getting to Know Research Tools**

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The goal of this activity is for each student to become comfortable adding information to our class wiki in an orderly way and for each student to create his or her own wikipage with GreenerTeacher as a co-organizer. 1) Add comments to active page on class wiki 2) Create personal wiki - naming convention OR(for Online Research) followed by last initial first name --- eg **OR-slinda** 3) [] 4) Make GreenerTeacher and myrahalpin co-organizers 5) Organization 6) Upload an image 7) Upload a document 8) Upload a link
 * table of contents - double squared parentheses around the letters "toc" automatically creates a table of contents for every text item that is in Heading3, Heading2 or Heading1 formats )
 * left navigation pane - create links to pages for i. Journal Entries, ii. Lab/Field Reports, iii. Course Wiki page)

The goal of this activity is for each student to download the most current version of Google Earth, become familiar with the controls and features and create a map that shows, with a marker their home, the school and measures the distance between the two locations. Students will create a .kmz file and post it on their personal wiki's Students will record the longitude and latitude of these two locations and work on a method for determing the polar circumference of the earth using easily collected data.

1) Download latest version of Google Earth [] 2) Open it and make sure you know how to use the navigation tools (upper right) 3) Get to know Google Earth features - [] and [] 4) Place a marker on your home and Label it eg. "Suzy's house" 5) Record the longitute and latitude in all available formats - decimal longitude and latitude as well as degrees, minutes, seconds formats (you can do this by adding them to the marker label) 6) Repeat 4 & 5 for NCSSM (except change the marker name ) 7) Draw a line on the map between your home and NCSSM. 8) Use the measuring tool to measure and record the distance in miles and kilometers. 9) Save the map to your desktop (it will have a .kmz extension). 10) Post the map on your personal wiki on the main page. 11) Add the map as an interactive map to your personal wiki on the main page. 11) Add your home to the shared map at

3. Write up


Explain how you did each of these (the numbered tasks outlined under __1. Wikispaces__ above and __2. Google Earth__ above) so that you can do them again.