Intended End User: Teacher
Age Group: Upper Primary; Lower Secondary; Upper Secondary
School Curriculum: Science; Social, Physical & Health Education
Themes and Topics: Energy Use and Production; Behaviour & Lifestyle; Collective Action; Environmental Change; Food and Agriculture; Power & Influence; Information & Knowledge; Citizenship
Duration: 15 minutes+
Type of Resource: Case Study, Audio/Video, Presentation, Online Tool
Keywords: Virtual Tours, Global Perspectives, Virtual Field Trip, Earth Systems
Languages: English
Description
Google Earth’s Voyager is a showcase of interactive guided tours, quizzes, and layers that aim to help educate everyone about the world, locations near and far. By clicking the ship’s wheel icon on Google Earth, you’ll circumnavigate the globe with the Hōkūleʻa using stars, track hurricanes and tropical storms in real-time, and find place-based stories authored by partners such as National Geographic and HHMI Biointeractive. Voyager’s curated stories weave in rich media, such as 360 videos and Street View, allowing us to learn about Earth from a new perspective. This resource can used as a starting point to gain a global and place-based perspective of SC related challenges.
How to use this resource
The Google Earth Voyager resource provides virtual, interactive tours and field trips of the earth’s most interesting and thought-provoking places. The 34 interactive virtual tour themes include the rising sea levels, the world’s oceans, ecosystems, the warming planet, air pollution and other global challenges.
The Voyager interactive virtual tours bring teachers and students around the world to show them the interconnected systems of our planet without leaving the classroom. It allows teachers and students to explore how the challenges that people face in faraway places are connected to our own lives and communities. This selection of resources can be used to explore the current knowledge and understanding, while building towards the realisation for the need for change.
This set of resources can be used as a suitable tool to undertake initial explorations into the world of SC through virtual fields trips, and starting to understand the interconnected nature of our planet systems and its peoples.
The resources
The Google Earth Voyager Gallery can be accessed here:
Learning Outcomes
- Elicit prior knowledge and further develop knowledge and comprehension of key Sustainability Citizenship key concepts, challenging established worldviews and values.
- Apply a range of suitable tools and frameworks to promote student Sustainability Citizenship.
Green Competencies
- Embodying Sustainable Values: Valuing Sustainability; Supporting Fairness; Promoting Nature
- Embracing Complexity in Sustainability: Systems Thinking;
- Envisioning Sustainable Futures: Futures Literacy; Exploratory Thinking
Creative Commons
The Google Earth Voyager gallery was created by Google and shared here under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Licence.
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