1. Aim of Task: to plan a charity event involving the MOVEMENT of people
Planning a Charity Event
Aim of Task: to plan a charity event
involving the MOVEMENT of people
from one place to another (journey) in
order to raise money for an organisation
of your choice.
Key objectives:
1. To make the charitable event fun and/or competitive
2. To use Google Earth to plan your event
3. To Create a BLOG using 'blogger' to inform fund raisers of your idea.

2. Tasks:
1. Identify a Charity event – what types of charity events can you think of?

3. Climbing Mountains

4. Fun Run (marathon)

5. Cycling/ Mountain Biking

6. Extreme sport - e.g Bungee Jumping, absailing

7. 2. Using Google Earth
Identify a LOCATION where you would like your event to take place.
E.g Grand Canyon - Bunge Jumping off the SKYWALK!

8. TASK 3: Decide what
Charity you are
going to raise
money for.

9. Task 4: Write an instruction sheet for the fundraisers>
This should include:
·Safety Tips
·info about where they are going
·rules/tips on how to collect money
·dates/times etc
CAN YOU THINK OF ANY MORE?

10. VIRTUAL TOUR Task 5 - Back to Google Earth.
Now its time to plan your event.
For this you will be using 'SNAPSHOT VIEW' - a feature of Google Earth which allows you to plan a
VIRTUAL TOUR
MR WORTHING WILL TALK YOU THROUGH

11. Make sure the PLACES section is empty.
Step 1:
Make sure the PLACES section is empty.
If not you will need to right click on the names of the places and press DELETE.
Step 3:
Now fly to another place.
Right click and press SNAP SHOTVIEW again
Sept 2:
Now FLY TO a place e.g Cefn Fforest.
RIGHT CLICK on the PLACE name and press SNAPSHOT VIEW.
Step 4: Play tour by pressing the play button

13. Decision Making time!
Now choose the BEST charity event from all of the groups in the class.
You should have reasons for your choice.
The chosen event
3rd choice
2nd choice

14. From Millenium to Stade de France 7 River Nile 2
Events
Unicycle Race
Sky Diving
Hiking and Skiing 1
Running
Any Mode
Kyacking
kicking a football 1
tightrope walking
Location
Vatican City 0
Fiji Islands 5
Mnt Everest 0
Beijing 0
From Millenium to Stade de France 7
River Nile 2
Fr European stadiums 3
Grand Canyon 11

15. Decision Making Time:
NEW TASK: the class will now be divided into a team of different responsibilities.
There will be 5 teams in total!
THE TEACHERS
THE BLOGGERS
THE GOOGLE EARTH Team
DESIGNERS
RESEARCHERS
The RUNNERS

16. The Teachers!
Team 5 (4 pupils)
Resources needed: a brain and 1 laptop
Objectives: to decide what vital information will need to be included in the leaflet and blog.
time of charity
date
name of blog site
name of charity

17. The BLOGGERS!
Team 1 (3 pupils)
RESOURCES NEEDED - Stand alone CPU
OBJECTIVE - to produce a blog about the chosen charity event using
blogger.com

18. The Google Earth Team
3 pupils ( 1 laptop)
Objective: to design a VIRTUAL TOUR of the journey or event using the snapshot view function and PHOTOBUCKET.

19. The Designers
Team 2 (8 pupils)
Resources needed: 2 laptops (these will be producing a brochure
of the charity event)
Each pupil will be responsible for creating a page for the leaflet/ brochure (done on A4 paper)
They will then create their idea/page on the laptop.
Objectives. To produce a leaflet of your charity using
Microsoft software (i.e WORD, PUBLISHER)

20. The Researchers
Team 3 (8 Pupils)
Resources needed: 4 laptops (1 between 2)
Objectives: to research information which can be passed onto Team 1& 2.

21. The runners
Team 4: 6 pupils needed
Resources needed: integrity and a pair of legs! and scrap paper to make notes
Objectives: to pass on information from the teachers and researchers to the other teams.

22. LETS GO

23. Here’s one we did earlier