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GOOGLE EARTH AND BEYOND. TEACHING AND


LEARNING IN THE EARTH AND PLANETARY
SCIENCES AT ALL EDUCATIONAL...

Conference Paper · January 2016


DOI: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-283321

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GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA - 2016

Paper No. 67-17


Presentation Time: 9:00 AM-5:30 PM

GOOGLE EARTH AND BEYOND. TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE EARTH


AND PLANETARY SCIENCES AT ALL EDUCATIONAL LEVELS

COBA, Filis1, BURGIN, Stephen2 and DE PAOR, Declan G.1, (1)Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, (2)University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, [email protected]

Google Earth recently celebrated its 10th birthday and has been downloaded over 2 billion times. Yet its potential in Earth and
Planetary Science education at all levels remains under-appreciated. The majority of users probably never explore Google Moon,
Google Mars, or Google Sky, all of which are built into the Google Earth desktop app. Even fewer users will be aware of the existence
of custom globes for Mercury, Venus, and all the other planets and moons, including the Google Mercury, Google Venus, Google Titan,
and Google Pluto globes created by our ww.GEODE.net project.
In order to send our students on a “Grand Tour” of the terrestrial planets, we created KML/KMZ files and for comparison we made
PDFs with identical content in a static, textbook-like format. We tested the relative efficacy of the treatment (KML) and comparison
(PDF) versions on over 360 general education students. Our KML tours lead to small but statistically significant learning gains in the
short term when compared to still PDF documents, but these gains faded in long-term follow-up. As discipline-based education
researchers, we offer the pre-test, the treatment and the post-test. We do not have daily access to students to reinforce learning gains.
Teachers with such daily access could anticipate better longterm gains.
We also used Google Earth in a mini (27 student) study to address misconceptions about reasons for the seasons. Again, learning
gains were small but statistically significant. Nevertheless, in a domain where misconceptions have proven extremely difficult to
dislodge, any learning gains are a success.
We have developed lesson plans and rubrics to give school teachers a turn-key resource for using Google Earth in lunar and planetary
education. Our products align with the connectivist theory of learning in the digital age. All resources are freely available for download
from ww.GEODE.net.

Session No. 67--Booth# 157


T76. Digital Poster Session: Training Preservice Teachers to Apply Digital Technology across the Geoscience Curriculum (Posters)
Sunday, 25 September 2016: 9:00 AM-5:30 PM

Exhibit Hall E/F (Colorado Convention Center)

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 7


doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-283321

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of this electronic file and reproduce up to 20 paper copies for noncommercial purposes advancing science and education, including classroom
use, providing all reproductions include the complete content shown here, including the author information. All other forms of reproduction and/or
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