Environments - SURVEYOR 

Measuring distances using Google maps

Primary Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

1. You are going to investigate Google Maps with a partner. Go to wikeHow: How to use Google Maps.

Together go through the steps!

2. Go to Google's "Measure distance between points" and make the following measurements:

a. The distance between home and school. What is the fastest route on a bike? Walking? Car? Train? Tram? Or a combination of these modes of transport

b. The distance between school and your sporting activity

c. The distance between home and your grandsparents, aunts, uncles. Do you need to include air transport?

2. Street View. Go to "Get to Street View in Google Maps" and look at the view of your street and your house. When do you think this street view was captured? Has anything changed about your house? Garden?

3. To get an overview of satellite imagery and 3D maps, go to Google Earth. You will have to use Chrome for this view. Ask permission!

a. Select your street or township. Are there any features you were not aware of previously?

b. Select your school. What is the terrain like surrounding your school?

c. Go to Google Earth - Education and select one of the activities shown here.
   
Immersive Global Imagery is under "Resources" along with many other resources

4.

Discuss as a class what you have learnt from this tool.

How ancient Babylonian land surveyors developed a unique form of trigonometry - 1000 years before the Greeks: Retrieval Chart Strategy

Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Cooperative Learning Activity

1. Form groups of 3 - 4 students and read the following article from The Conversation 5 August 2021

2. Using the Retrieval Chart Strategy, gather as much information as you can including images.

3. Combining with another group of students, the first group is to explain to the second group what they discovered. The second group is the question and report back to the first group what they now understood the article to be about and provide any new relevant information that the first group missed.

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Did You Know?

For a more detailed description of the contribution of life of a Colonial Surveyor to Indigenous words being used, read the account of James Larmer State Library NSW