Google Earth Tour Ring of Fire

Here is my tour of the Ring of Fire


Students love Google Earth especially if you let them find their own house first! There are so many layers to this program; it could be used for any subject. I teach earth science during the first part of the school year and I made this Ring of Fire tour as an example from which my students could create a Plate Tectonic Tour. The student version would include an example of a divergent boundary, transform boundary and also a convergent boundary. Each stop would include informative links and a photograph showing associated features such as mountains, faults, volcanoes, et. I often integrate with the humanities teachers and right now they are looking at how the Western Reserve was settled. Students could use google earth to document the journey of settlers moving from New England to Ohio. They could take on the persona of a child, or adult on the journey and at each stop they could write about what they are seeing, feeling, eating, etc. They could incorporate pictures or scans of their own drawings. Perhaps they could find or create pictures of household items, wagons, dress or animals important to the journey. I think this virtual journey is a nice alternative for those students who do do not want to make a hard copy journal.