Lab 16a: earth: mapping my home with GIS

Part one: Google earth and my home
use google chrome browser to open google earth (earth.google.com)
open a new project, and save to google drive
locate your home on the earth (can be street or neighborhood)
check out street view there
print out a color picture of your town (color printer is in the elab)
zoom out to include your country, print another picture with your country circled
zoom out to include the world, with your country circled
pick one of the layers google earth and one of the pictures and print this
on a huge paper, glue these together, with a HUGE label on top: My home is---Part two: Time lapse
open google earth on google chrome, click projects->new project->create in google drive
find the elab and the HPA campus
turn on historical imagery and look back in time: when were the solar panels installed?
go back to your home images, and look back in time-what do you notice?
use the ruler tool to measure some distance on the HPA campus
use the ruler tool to measure the distance from your home to your earlier school
measure how far it is from your home to HPA
how many meters do you have to walk to get from the elab to the cafeteria?
use google earth engine timelapse to see changes in glaciers: https://earthengine.google.com/timelapsePart three: Simulations
open the google earth simulations here: https://www.google.com/earth/about/gallery/
find a few simulations you like and play
check out the climate change simulator here and look at Puako or other beaches on our island
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