The Roman Colosseum with Google Earth Tours
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Don't get left behind! Cross off all of these European destinations from your bucket list and virtually visit. Teachers, parents, and students all agree that these are the best ways to learn about and experience these exotic sites, if you can't go there in person. Each product includes a document oPrice $26.95Original Price $31.92Save $4.97
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Tour the Roman Colosseum with Google Earth Tours
Make a virtual field trip to the Roman Colosseum, one of the planet’s most famous landmarks. You will be using Google Earth to watch a pre-recorded tour of the ancient arena and it’s neighboring structures. The trip through Rome lasts 5 minutes and 38 seconds.
Making cameo appearances on the trip are the Pantheon, the Roman Forum, the Vatican and the Spanish Steps, to name just a few.
The product includes a document of about 25 talking points and interesting facts about the tourist attraction.
The tour is also accompanied by a PDF file that describes what you are seeing based on the corresponding minutes in the video. This is so you can pause the tour at the given time stamp and let the class know what they are looking at.
1. For example the document says at,
“1:05 – 1:18 – You are brought directly above the Colosseum.
a. The area to the west of the Colosseum is the Roman Forum with Palatine Hill just south of the forum.
i. The Roman Forum was the political and spiritual center of the ancient Roman Empire for centuries. Now it is an incredible archaeological site open to the public where you can see many ancient buildings, temples, basilicas, and more.
ii. According to Roman legend, the sons of the god Mars, Romulus and Remus, were raised on Palatine Hill and founded Rome here.”
The tour begins with a view of Europe from outer space. You are then zoomed in to the site’s location to see it from a variety of different viewpoints. The angles are chosen so the students can get a good idea of the structure’s location within Rome, as well as, its physical relationship to other famous landmarks in its vicinity. Finally, you are taken back out to a long shot of Europe.
To watch, all you have to do is click on the file, Google Earth will open and the tour will start. * Your computer must have Google Earth to watch these tours.
Feel free to visit some other famous landmarks in the Americas.
1. The Golden Gate Bridge (3:29)
6. Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri (1:06)
9. Freedom Tower, aka One World Trade Center (3:54)
10. The Kremlin, Red Square and St. Basil’s Cathedral (4:20)
Here are some European landmarks.
4. The Leaning Tower of Pisa (3:28)
Tour some African sites.
1. The Egyptian Pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Giza (3:15)
Go on an outing to these Asian destinations.
1. The Great Wall of China (5:41)
2. The Kremlin, Red Square and St. Basil’s Cathedral (4:20)
These tours work great with social studies lessons about famous landmarks, maps, cardinal directions, etc.
Here are a few links to some helpful tutorials on how to use Google Earth.
How to Use Google Earth For Beginners – by Rick Castellini on YouTube
Beginner Google Earth Tutorial Videos by Google
Beginner’s Guide to Using Google Earth – by The Land Brothers
Please feel free to email me directly at r_nyg@yahoo.com if you need any assistance.
Check out all of my Google Earth Tours on this Pinterest board.
The cover image is by Clker-Free-Vector-Images and has a CCO Creative Commons license. The image can be found on Pixabay @ https://pixabay.com/en/colosseum-coliseum-gladiators-rome-295080/
Google Earth Tour Map Attribution
Map Data:
Google, Image Landsat / Copernicus
Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO
Image IBCAO
Image U.S. Geological Survey
Image © 2017 Digital Globe
© 2017 Google
