Latitude and Longitude Printable PDF
- to change format of lat/long. In Google > Preferences (decimal degrees or deg., min., secs.). The default setting is degrees/minutes/seconds.
- coordinates will only be accepted in latitude/long. pairs and not vice versa.
- turn on and off the lat/long grid (View > Lat/Lon grid)
- Questions:

• Find Saskatchewan - figure out what happens to the value of the latitude and longitude when they walk due north. Determine that the latitude should increase while the longitude should stay the same.
• Find 0 degrees latitude. What is this called? Equator.
• What happens to the degrees of latitude when you go below the equator?
  Start increasing again – these are degrees south latitude
• Find 0 degrees longitude. What is this called? Prime Meridian.
• What happens to the degrees of longitude when you travel east of the Prime Meridian? West of Prime Meridian?
• What degree of latitude forms the border between Canada and the United States? (must have the thumb on the border). 49 degrees N latitude.
• Find a country (name in yellow) and double click on it to zoom in and have the name appear. Record the latitude and longitude of the country – do this by placing the cursor over the country name.
• Have students share their lat/long. And have other students locate the countries.
  Students look for various cities or provinces in Canada and determine lat/long.
  Students spin and zoom the globe to get there, making latitude and longitude turn from an abstract concept into a hands-on reality.
  Students choose a city, then use Google Earth to find out its latitude and longitude. They put this information on a small sticky note and place the note on the world map in our classroom.

Explorers
Students create a Google Earth slideshow of the explorer they study. They put placemarks on the globe corresponding to locations their explorer visited. Then they tell the story of the explorer's voyage using Google Earth. Source

Graphing Unit
Students search for the longitude of the city they were born in, and graph the longitude (to 5 decimal places) on the x axis vs the number of letters in their name on the y axis.

Landforms
When students are studying landforms they use Google Earth to find a good example of a landform they are researching, take a snapshot image of it (Control>Shift>4), and drag and drop it into Word, along with a title and definition. Provide location of feature.

Take a Tour
Create a tour of your own in Google Earth. Directions PDF
To see a sample tour, download this tour which is an introduction to the Pacific Rim countries. You can change the starting point to your school.

Lesson and accompanying KMZ file - The Hidden Complexities of Delivering Grain within Saskatchewan
by Andrew Cymbalisty, U of R Education student