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A different way to read great literature!

Bonnie's Blog: 3D design for K-12 and beyond. Information about the Hoover Dam and ideas for classroom use.

This is perfect for those who can't use Google Earth.

Good collection

Featuring lots of Google Earth tours for students, where they can snap photographs and create postcards.

See the tweets of your followers or of those you follow on a google earth map. Google Earth plugin required.

See thte tweets of your followers on a google earth map. Google Earth plugin required.

Tools, crib sheets, resources.

Welcome to this ressource page on 'Google Earth'. A few sections are written in Danish since these guidelines are/were designated Danish friends and family. For all you others feel free to check out our homemade kmz files, google earth tours, placemark collections like; the Suez canal tour, the Gudenaa river tour, the Kiel canal tour and the mighty Amazon river tour. Not to mention the Mount Everest tour and K1, K2, K3, K4, K5 mountains. Or take the tour through great and grand canyons along the Colorado river. Dive into the deepest part of the oceans by taking the Mariana trench tour.

Embed this Google Earth player on your webpage. Point it to a kmz tour file. This is great! Check out an example here: http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2009/07/best_google_earth_tour_to_date_apol.html

Embed this Google Earth player on your webpage. Point it to a kmz file. This is great!

If you've not seen this, do check it out. Show this to your social studies teachers.

kmlfactbook.org can use either Google Maps or the Google Earth browser plugin to preview the KML files that you create. To switch between the two modes press the 2D Map and 3D Map buttons to the right in the screen. The Preview in Map button will show the selected data-set in the Google Maps or Earth plugin preview window. The Download KML file button will download the same file to be saved locally on your disk or opened in the standalone Google Earth application.

Classroom activities - A brief overview of Google products and ideas for integrating them into classwork (all grades)

A bunch of lessons for using Google Earth at all educational levels.

This is a great handout with illustrated instructions for creating placemarks and tours in Google Earth created by David Jakes. If you click on the little yellow comment bubble in the upper-right corner of the first page, you can find the Word doc version to adapt for your own students/teachers.

So full of win!

A nice post about how to use Google Docs to be able to put images in a Google Earth Placemark.

Gov of Louisiana uses Google Earth KML file to project oil spill trajectory

THIS is what you can do WITH computers that you cannot do WITHOUT them.

Talk about virtual field trips. Here are 10 great Car trips that you can play right in your browser. Show your students!

Excellent. Thanks to Jason Heiser for sharing this at PETE&C

Google has built a pretty neat site using the Google Earth Plug-in to show off information about all 44 presidents that we've had in the US.