• This Google Earth voyage takes students on an interactive trip of forests around the world, showcasing the impacts of human activity throughout the years.
• The resource provides information on deforestation, land use change, mitigation efforts, and supplemental links for further learning.

Positives

• Many of the stops on the voyage provide time-lapse Google Earth footage of forests throughout the world.
• Each of the stops on the voyage is accompanied by photographs and written descriptions of the location.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be comfortable with technology and navigating Google Earth.
• Younger students can be guided through the trip as a whole class activity.
• Students should be familiar with vocabulary words like deforestation, fossil fuels, palm oil, and biodiversity.

Differentiation

• Social studies teachers could use this resource as a cooperative learning activity with pairs of students observing and writing about each location.
• Elementary classes can use the resource as a class and students could use a graphic organizer to record the name of the location, where it is located, what is happening to the forest, and why.

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