Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.
This student project, related to science, utilizes Twitter and Google Earth. The teacher used their network on Twitter to provide challenging locations for students to locate in Google Earth. Once the class located the individual, they provided a tweet response. Neat way to show connectivism and networking!
For those who haven't explored it yet, Google Earth's Voyager feature is a great resource for geography and mapping activities to integrate into lessons. (Launch in the Chrome browser).
This website discusses incorporating technology into a geography lesson. It focuses on involving others who would tweet their locations and hints on specific locations. Students would then search for these places on Google Earth.
Includes links to valuable classroom websites for General Science, Physics & Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Environmental & Earth Sciences, Space Science - Astronomy & Astrophysics, Medicine & Nanoscience, and iPad Apps.
The edtech 541 textbook mentions CIESE collaborative projects, but they also have some neat options where students work with real-time data, mostly focused on earth science topics
A teacher had members of her PLN tweet out clues to her class, and they used various functions of Google Earth (GE) to track them down. Students used twitter (through the teacher's account) to send the results of their searches. The teacher said that this was a great way to introduce students to the tools involved in using GE effectively.
all in a day’s field trip for students in the Mt. Lebanon School District outside Pittsburgh. The middle schoolers’ adventure takes place without anyone leaving the building, using a videoconferencing
as museums and zoos, as well as to more exotic realms. A 2009 report suggests that about 30 percent of U.S. schools have adopted videoconferencing—up 5 percent since 2006.
This article talks about the benefits of virtual field trips. It also talks about a specific school near Pittsburgh that took a virtual field trip through videoconferencing. The students did an e-Mission to learn about earth Science.
This is a phenomenal collection of science simulations. I've used them both as a demonstration on my SMARTboard to drive home some point and as labs where students use the simulations to discover key points on their own.