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Combining math with Google Earth to create exciting classroom projects. This is a collaborative Google presentation.

Math Maps Project Using Google Earth

50 Exciting Ideas for the Classroom. Nicely grouped by grade level. Great ideas to get started with using google earth.

50 Exciting Ideas for the Classroom. Nicely grouped by grade level. Great ideas to get started with using google earth.

Great use of Google Earth to explore geometry and geography.  

 Real World Math, a free website with lessons based on Google Earth aimed at grades 5 - 10. 

View CIA data sets with Google Earth technology. Download data sets, generate kml files, and compare areas of the world easily.

CIA World Factbook visualized interactively with Google Earth. Allows you to download .kml files for the data set of interest, as well as edit the style...wow.

CIA World Factbook visualized interactively with Google Earth. Allows you to download .kml files for the data set of interest, as well as edit the style...wow.

Information about an amazing 3D recreation of ancient Rome through Google Earth. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/History

"So What exactly are Google Lit Trips? The short version is simple. Google Lit Trips are free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. At each location along the journey there are placemarks with pop-up windows containing a variety of resources including relevant media, thought provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about "real world" references made in that particular portion of the story. "

 Chrome Experiments of fun with html5 are meant to show off the clean and fast beauty of the new code.  Of  course Google wants you to see it in Chrome for full effect, and I would encourage that as Chrome is an easy and responsive browser, you try it out.  The Wilderness Downtown is a great example of an interactive and connected multimedia experience that mashes together Google Maps and Earth with a driving tune to blast you to your past.  Go in and enter your old address and feel the nostalgia of swooping over your childhood home with a soundtrack and pacing just for you. Students are making digital stories.  They may not be writing html5 apps, but they are accessing, or can access, many sources of media to deepen their message.  A showing of a story like what you help create with The Wilderness Downtown experiment can inspire students to consider how they can use everyday tools like Google Earth to connect with an audience. Just go to http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ and type in your address. 

Looking at the world through via Google Earth offers striking images of the diversity of our planet and the impact that humans have had on it. Today's entry is a puzzle -- part 2 in a series (part 1 here), this time offering multiple choices. We're challenging you to figure out where in the world each of the images below is taken. North is not always up in these pictures, and, apart from a bit of contrast, they are unaltered images provided by Google and its mapping partners. So I invite you to have a look at the images below, make your guesses, and see your score at the end. Good luck!

Posters to aid student use of Google resources

Want to help out students and colleagues with handy tips on improving search results and using popular Google products like Google Earth? Just print out these posters and hang them where everyone can see them.

Fantastic instructional design resource for developing Google Earth Tours ("GETs") from accomplished academics in the field.

"Google Earth (earth.google.com) works wonders but loves to crash on older computers. Try the University of Texas at Austin's renowned Perry-Castañeda Library Virtual Map Room for a wide array of PDF maps from around the globe."

View historical maps as Google Earth overlays. Great now/then material for History!

This is another presentation by Joe Wood of San Juan Unified and The EdTech Classroom Podcast fame. Google Earth is his "thing."

Thematic Mapping Engine provides users with a very simple way to create Google Earth kmz files. Thematic Mapping draws on data provided by the United Nations to create maps depicting all types of development data and environmental science data. Users select a statistical indicator category, select a year or range of years, and the manner in which they would like the data displayed in Google Earth.

Sketchup from Google is a widely used 3D modelling program. Originally designed to design buildings in Google Earth, it can be used to model anything. There is a vast library of pre-made components to download. So many possible uses in the classroom. Make sure you are using it too! http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools