This is home

This is home

By MYRNA GUADARRAMA ARCHUNDIA

Instructions

1. Open Google

2. Navigate to earth.google.com/web

3. Click on the “ship’s wheel” icon

4. Select the “Culture” tab

5. Look for the feature called “This is Home”

6. Click “Explore Now”

7. Choose one of the homes shown

8. Observe the home and the location

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ship's wheel​

Open Ended

How have the people in the example adapted their home to the unique challenges and requirements of the landscape, climate, and other conditions where they live?

Search for the place you call home.

• Click on the "Spyglass" icon​ on the left side. This may be a region, a city, or a specific location.

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• Explore ​your home in Google Earth using the navigation controls.

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• Use “pegman” to enter Street View if it is possible.

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Open Ended

How has your “home” been adapted by people in response to the location and its conditions?

Draw

What features of the place you call home are there naturally?

Draw

Which features are made by people?

​Check the timelapse in Alberta, Canada (Mining)

Timelapse – Google Earth Engine

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​To explore more about the changes to your hometown

• Open Earth Engine Timelapse https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/

• ​Search for the place you call home.

• Watch as the images change over time.

• Click on the “Pause” button at the left to stop Timelapse.

• Move forward through the years by clicking on the different year bars.

• Observe the changes.

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​What changes do you notice in the image over time?

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Open Ended

How might Earth’s systems affect or be affected by people adapting the place to their needs?

​- Stewart Udall

“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.” —