Locations for Google Earth Tour

Please note that this lesson is designed as an enrichment activity to go hand in hand with the text book.

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1. Pearl Harbor, HI	View the site where Japan attacked As a class discuss the following: Why did Japan decide to attack here? How did this affect the US? What was the response from the US after the bombing?	Panoramio
2. Betio, Tarawa, Kiribati	View a remaining cannon on the shore at Betio from WWII Discuss with a classmate: Why do we rarely hear about the battles that took place at this location?	Panoramio
3. Hiroshima, Japan	View the memorial for the people where the A-Bomb was dropped **With GREAT SENSITIVITY** - View the memorial with a number of names of people who had died in the bombing - ask students to make a more recent connection.	Panoramio
4. Nagasaki, Japan	View the memorial for the people where the A-Bomb was dropped (See activity for Number 3. Number 3 and 4 go together.)	Panoramio
Details of image overlay / path / polygon:	A path could be created from Japan to Tarawa and then another one from Tarawa to Hawaii