Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Mountains

With a partner or small group, research the characteristics and the geological processes involved in three examples of your chosen geological event (earthquakes, volcanoes, or mountain systems) and present your learning in a Google Earth tour.

Resources and Examples:

Research Tools	Note-taking Guidelines This page also has the Note-Taking template in Word
Topic Resources	Earthquakes	Mountain Ranges	Volcanoes
Tutorials	Creating Hypertext Tutorial page for creating hypertext links to animations and sources.	Googledocs Tutorial page for transferring your information and images to Google Docs	Creating a Google Earth Tour Tutorial Page for making the Google Earth Tour
Examples	Mrs. Johnson's Geyser Googledoc	Mrs. Johnson's Google Earth Geysers Tour Geyser Tour.kmz Details Download 5 KB	Student Tours

Be attentive during unit introduction
Load and save note-taking template
Choose 3 locations/specific examples of your category (volcanoes, mountain ranges, earthquakes) and write them in your note-taking document.
Decide who is doing which examples, start research if you have time.

Using the selected resources, complete research, typing all notes in your note-taking document and following the note-taking guidelines. NO GOOGLING. You may save pictures and diagrams that you find in your sources to your H drive. You should create a folder especially for those.
Save useful sites to favorites, and paste URLs from sources used into your note-taking document.

Complete your notes. Finalize and polish your writing, checking for spelling, punctuation and grammar. Make sure that you have pictures and diagrams saved in your H drive in a named folder. Do NOT insert pictures into your Word document. You will do this in your Google doc.
Make sure all source links are listed under the Sources section of each location, including sources for images and diagrams (VERY important).
Finish research and work together with your partner to explain and write the final "pattern and connections" piece in one of the notes documents (it doesn't matter whose document because both documents will be combined). Use the Note-taking Guidelines to help you, if needed.
Going for the A? Insert links to animations and other content. Here is a tutorial.

Combine your notes that are on your Word document into one googledoc. Instructions are on the Googledocs page.

Complete your Googledocs page. Work with your partner on ONE computer to create your Google Earth Tour. Instructions are on the Google Earth Tour page

Visit your classmates Google Earth Tours and make comments in Wiki discussion tab