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Today we're looking at GEteach [Google Earth PLUGIN required.] , a site developed by 9th-grade Geography teacher Josh Williams. The site uses the Google Earth Plug-in to give you quick access to a wide variety of information such as the CIA Factbook, population densities, and various other human and physical geographic overlays.

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If you are new to Google Earth (GE), there are some useful stories written in the Google Earth Blog which might give a beginner, or even an experienced user, some insights about this exciting program. If you are looking for more advanced things, try going to the GEB home page and use the categories or Search option for things like: GPS, Geocaching, GIS, network links, image overlays, and more. On this page are links to stories which might help guide you to learning enough about Google Earth that you will soon be a GE expert.

"It's a subject we've discussed before, but it's worth taking another look. With all of the great new StreetView imagery arriving the last week, many people don't realize how easy it is to view that imagery in Google Earth. If you find yourself in Google Earth using one of the many layers they've built in or exploring a KML file you recently downloaded, it can be handy to dive into StreetView mode without having to load your browser and use Google Maps."

Great how to on using street view in Google Earth.

"Google Earth Outreach gives non-profits and public benefit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to visualize their cause and tell their story in Google Earth & Maps to the hundreds of millions of people who use them. "

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.

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.

Nice collection of Google Earth tutorials - from Google Earth folks

Build your Google Earth skills with this official GE game

Earth & Sky is an award winning daily earth science, astronomy, and environmental science radio series heard by millions of listeners on over 950 commercial and public stations.

The National Environmental Education Foundation, in partnership with The Weather Channel, has launched Classroom Earth, a program designed to enhance and strengthen environmental education in high school classrooms nationwide. By harnessing the expertise and passion of teachers and students around the country, Classroom Earth will enrich the high school curriculum by encouraging the inclusion of environmental education into all high school subjects - from biology to art - and make it easier for teachers to access best practices online. The primary goal of the program is to increase the environmental literacy of high school students and to provide models for including environmental education in high school classrooms through the Web.

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.

In this theme, explore resources from other teachers that can help you with your Earth Day lessons for April 22nd, an annual celebration started in 1969 to promote awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. In this Theme you can view some tips on using ActivInspire with your environment lessons, learning how to do functions such as linking to external sites of interest. There are also a diverse range of resources selected for you to choose from that have already been submitted by other teachers, associated with the Earth, the environment and ecology

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.

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

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.

"Meograph provides tools for creating map-based and timeline-based narrated stories. When you watch a Meograph story (click here to watch one about women's rights in the USA) you will notice that it is very similar to a watching a narrated Google Earth tour. That is because it is based on the Google Maps and the Google Earth browser plug-in. As the story plays you can stop it to explore additional content in the forms of videos, texts, and images."  http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/07/meograph-opens-four-dimensional.html

According to Mr. Have received the "Council of Twelve." Mr. Kane describes the "Council of Twelve", as stating that during nine days of December 12, 2012 (12/12/12) by December 21, 2012, the planet Earth will be divided into two separate earths dimensionally, each of which has different dimensional frequencies. Mr. Have described this as a process similar to how a single cell can divide into two cells.

50 Great ideas for using Google Earth in the classroom. From elementary to high school

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth until you reach a tall oak tree. Then move from the actual leaf into a microscopic world.