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I nice idea for using Google EArth., a where in the world challenge.

creating google earth narrated tours

Martin Burrett 26 Aug 11 10:26:16 A superb interactive science resource about the structure of the Earth, plate Tectonics, earthquakes and volcanoes. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/science

An interesting geography site which show what is on the opposite side of the Earth. For London it's just some fish and a lot of water. A nice way of selecting contrasting places to study. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE,+RE,+Citizenship,+Geography+&+Environmental

Google Earth Plug-in Driving Simulator-Very Cool

dynamic earth structure and pelt tectonic interactive

"Gravity satellite yields 'Potato Earth' view" 31 March 2011 Last updated at 15:27 GMT

A very complete list of Google Earth Activities

global warming activity using maps 

The World Wonders Project is a valuable resource for students and scholars who can now virtually discover some of the most famous sites on earth. The project offers an innovative way to teach history and geography to students of primary and secondary schools all over the world. Feel free to download these educational packages for your classroom use.

Last year's news but still interesting.

Martin Burrett 19 Aug 11 10:52:45 A beautifully made geography and science flash resource from Oxfam about the Earth. Look at the land and seas on the surface and travel down into the core of our planet.

Plates & Boundaries The earth's continents are constantly moving due to the motions of the tectonic plates. Closely examine the map below, which shows the 15 major tectonic plates.

Five Cool Things You Can Do With WeatherSpark 1. Get three local forecasts presented in graphs. Two when outside of the US. 2. Compare the weather in San Francisco vs New York. 3. View the global climate trends. And read the details. 4. Check out the monsoon in Mumbai, India. The rain is so dominant that it cools down the air for three months, creating a yearly temperature curve that actually dips in the summer. 5. See an average late July in Houston. The thunderstorms typically roll in around 4pm. ... or tweet your own suggestion! WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth. Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context"

"When you just can't scrape together enough cash for the bus and kids won't bring back their permission slips."

A site that shows what floods can do.

"Earth's Hope is the theme of the EARCOS Global Issues Network Conference to be held in Beijing April 4, 5 & 6 at Western Academy of Beijing. The Global Issues Network is based on the ideas in Jean Francois Rischard's book High Noon "Twenty Global Problems, Twenty Years to Solve Them." Rischard identifies 20 urgent global problems and encourages the formation of small groups around the world to help solve them. This echoes Margaret Mead's famous quotation, "Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Global Issues Groups have been formed in many international schools throughout the world empowering international school students to help solve urgent global problems. We in EARCOS will now have the opportunity to do the same to create change in Asia. We invite all EARCOS schools to send a group(2-6) of students to this life changing event. "