This competition is open to everyone from Year 7 to 9. All you have to do is find a special place on the Earth, capture a picture and add a suitable caption. The idea is to visualize the Earth as a pice of art. Here’s an example:
There will be prizes for the best ones. I’m looking for originality, creativity, inspiration and a good choice of words to accompany the image. I’ll publish the best ones as well. To get going, do the following:
How to:
- Start Google Earth, or use this site: NASA Our Earth as Art
- Browse around until you find a spectacular place.
- Make a screenshot. (Cntrl + Print Screen)
- Crop the image if necessary.
- Upload the image to the Flickr Motivator tool.
- Add a suitable title and (optional) caption.
- Download the finished image to your computer.
- Email it to me at: NJenkins@educ.somerset.gov.uk
Some helpful resources:
Download Artwork Earth Google Earth placemarks (you need Google Earth)
See these places on a Google Map
The original teaching idea comes from this web site.
Can you do better than this?
I’m not sure I could. However there will be a prize for the best entry.
4 responses so far ↓
Tony Cassidy // May 28, 2007 at 9:23 pm
This is a really nice idea, do you mind if I have a go with our students?
Andrew Boardman // June 11, 2007 at 4:00 am
Noel - hope you don’t mind me pinching this and doing a combined art/geog comp at my new place - BTW geosquising is going down well (check my blog)
ali kabab // June 13, 2007 at 7:53 am
i like this work it is very helpful for my coursework ta
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