Contents

1. 1 New in 4.3
2. 2 Math
3. 3 Social Studies
4. 4 Science
5. 5 Language Arts
6. 6 For Educators
7. 7 Resource Links

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~ Keep up with Google Earth on the Google Earth Blog & The Google Earth Education Community.

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Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and even explore galaxies in the Sky. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places and share with others.

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New in 4.3

Google Earth Tour

Math

• X-TREME Geometry - Intense Right Triangles
• Measurement Lessons
• Concept Lessons
• Exploratory Lessons
• Project Based Learning
• Explore distance, velocity, and wave properties of tsunamis.

Social Studies

• History Tours
• Historical Voyages
• Explore Tutankhamun's Tomb.
• Humanities: Have your students scout film shoot locations like this teacher did with The Golden Compass.
• Global Awareness: Study the Crisis in Darfur with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's unprecedented project.

Science

• Clean Watersheds Project (requires Google Earth Pro)
• Biology Idea: Track routes of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe Forest. See the Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee blog here.
• Ecology: Create a short quiz like this one.
• Environmental Science: Have students check Alaska's global warming problems. See how the Sierra Club used Google Earth to depict this problem here.
• Geology: Find images, links, and descriptions, with information about thousands of volcanoes around the globe, thanks to organizations like the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program.
• http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/google_earth/index.html

http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/google_earth/examples.html

Language Arts

• Bring class or contemporary tales to life with Google LitTrips.
• Connect Poetry to Place with Poetry of Place

For Educators

Google Earth http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html
Google Sky http://www.google.com/educators/skyideas.html
Google Maps http://www.google.com/educators/p_maps.html
Google Sketchup http://www.google.com/educators/p_sketchup.html
Google Group  http://groups.google.com/group/google-for-educators?lnk=gschg

Resource Links

Presentation Link: http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dgdwkz9w_33d224pgft , http://sites.google.com/site/gtaresources/2008-11-18/geo