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Google Earth Across The Curriculum
Google Earth Across The Curriculum
If you dont have Google Earth installed on your computer. You can download and install from Earth.Google.com remember, its free. This guide was developed by Richard Byrne. Richard is a high school social studies, Google Certied Teacher, and author of Free Technology for Teachers. If you like this guide, please visit Free Technology for Teachers where everyday you will nd new free resources you can use in your classroom.
Mathematics
Real World Math is commonly regarded as one of the best collections of mathematics lessons that incorporate the use of Google Earth.
Science
Social Studies
The possibilities are endless for Social Studies teachers to use Google Earth in their classrooms. In history classes students can view and create their own tours of military campaigns. Take advantage of the historical imagery in Google Earth to compare and contrast the views of cities today with the views of the past. Go on a virtual eld trip to the Great Pyramid. In a Civics course you could have students record a narrated tour of their hometown as part of a tourism campaign. Use the KML Factbook to create layers of demographic data.
General Interest
Take health and physical education students on a virtual climb of Mount Everest to inspire interest in life-long physical activity. High school students exploring their college options may want to virtually tour campuses and their surrounding cities. Egiate makes an application for that. Take a virtual submarine tour via Sea Seek. Turn on the Wikipedia layer to conduct research by location. Use the 360 Cities layer to have a panoramic look at cities and tourist attractions.
There are numerous layers and features built into Google Earth that science teachers can utilize. If youre teaching lessons on astronomy Google Lit Trips maps or space exploration, out the story-lines of Some of the things switch Google Earth that a mathematics books providing into Moon, Mars, or teacher can do with students with a Sky mode. In the Google Earth include geographic context Moon mode students measuring distances, for the stories they can explore Apollo read. Google Lit Trips angles, depths, and landing sites and maps the biographies elevations. Switch even listen to phone Google Earth into Sky of authors. Some calls from astronauts mode and challenge Google Lit Trips to the President of the them to calculate include video United States. distances between segments within the stars. Switch to Moon If youre teaching tour. or Mars view and ask Earth Science your With a little students to calculate students can analyze instruction your and compare the size earthquake data. students can create of the two. Teachers of their own Google Lit Real World Math environmental Trips. Students can includes some science will want to map their excellent lessons explore the climate autobiographies. which use Google data layers. Biology Switch to Sky mode Earth to explore teachers may want to and students can fractals and graph look at endangered create sci. c. stories theory. species habits. about space travel.
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Watch a video from Google about viewing Mars. Watch a video from Google about viewing the Moon.
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For detailed video tutorials on adding placemarks and creating tours, watch this video and this video created by Joe Wood.
To learn more about using StreetView in Google Earth watch this video and read these directions from Frank Taylor.
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Watch a video from Google Earth Outreach which demonstrates use of Global Awareness layers.
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