 Google Earth Makes a World of Difference in your Classroom With Google Earth You Can... View Google Maps in any browser, create custom maps, collaborate, share your maps with simple web links, and embed customized Google Maps websites. Teachers can: A challenge: Think outside the globe! Check out the Just for Fun section to the right. How could you incorporate these "fun" sites into an actual curriculum lesson? |  Links & More Information Need Help With Google Earth? Never underestimate the value of reading the manual! A great place to discuss all things Google with an educational focus. Tip: Type "Earth" into the search field and click "Search this group." An entire community dedicated to all things Google Earth. Some great "getting started" tutorials for creating Google Earth projects. Several great project ideas for using Google Earth in Education. Go where no one has gone before. Explore Space! Teaching & Learning Ideas... Links to Google Earth Projects Miramonte High School staff and students were among 150 from across the country "Sojourning to the Past" during Spring Break - March 29 to April 7, 2007 via Google Earth and blogged of their experiences. Calculate the volume of some of the world's greatest buildings such as the Great Pyramids, the Pentagon, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Estimate the land area lost to Amazon deforestation. Students from Granada High School Consumer Education program use Google Earth to create an International Cookbook that includes a virtual tour of the countries represented. Join teachers and students from Kindergarten through higher ed who are developing Google Lit Trips marking the journeys of great works of literature using Google Earth. Just for Fun? Maybe, Maybe not... A collection of very cool sites captured in Google Earth! What might you do with Google Earth images of...
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