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**Vision:**
This is a place where students around the world will be able to share the places they live in a virtual setting. This lesson is created to students develop researching, critical thinking and collaboration skills. The world is a beautiful place, now lets go explore it through the eyes of the people that make it run.

Objective:
There are many ways that students can use this site. Students with their teachers may plan an expedition into a city and to create (REAL) LifeTrips of real people, which then become a resource for others to use. Another way is to create an IMAGINATION, an imaginary LifeTrip through the city using video tools provide on this site as a resource. Or, using some of the other online resources teachers and students may choose to just use the movies and life paths without contributing.

Procedure:
REALTRIPS Life Trips with Google Earth PROCEDURE: A. Research city index to gain an understanding of your chosen city B. Plan an expedition with your teacher using guidelines below C. Create a LifeTrips showing video, written and google earth diaries. D. This routine is stored on your teacher's wiki, and may be made available on the lifetrips site.

IMAGINATIONS Life Trips with Google Earth PROCEDURE A. Look through the city index and familiarize yourself with the city and the way people live in it B. Using Google Earth and composing paragraph imagine a local person's daily routine C. This routine is stored on your teacher's wiki, and may be made available on the lifetrips site.

Step by Step 1. Picking Country and Conducting Research 2. Map Course and Creating Diary 3. Create Your Own Life Trip (Optional)