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Barbara Lindsey

Juicy Geography: 10 ways to Google-up your coursework project! - 1 views

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    Some how to examples for using Google Earth and Google Maps with students.
Rita Oleksak

Asia for Educators | Columbia University - 0 views

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    Asia for Educators (AFE) is designed to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature at the undergraduate and pre-college levels.
Molly Murphy

GO-TOSPAIN.com - 0 views

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    Information about the regions, weather, geography of Spain
Kate Krotzer

Interactive Maps in Different Languages - 0 views

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    This site includes maps with matching puzzles to help students with geography. The maps can be changed to different languages.
Barbara Lindsey

Google For Educators - Maps - 0 views

  • Students can use Google Maps to learn about specific locations and see what they look like from an aerial view; compare their home streets and neighborhoods with those of distant penpals; and study satellite images superimposed on the maps.
  • With MyMaps, you and your students can create personalized, annotated, customized maps. Whether you're planning a field trip or documenting a famous traveler's journeys, you can embed photos, videos, and descriptive text to make the content come alive. You can also publish, share, and invite others to collaborate on your project.
Barbara Lindsey

Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Building Maker - 1 views

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    Create 3-D buildings from major cities worldwide.
Barbara Lindsey

YouTube - GoogleEarthVideoHelp's Channel - 0 views

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    With Google Earth 5.0, you can now travel back in time to see historical imagery, dive below the surface of the ocean and record a tour of your journeys.
Barbara Lindsey

YouTube - Street View in Google Earth - 0 views

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    Demo of street view and how to navigate it in Google Earth.
Barbara Lindsey

Google Earth Curriculum Ideas - Teaching Hacks - 0 views

  • Use the time zone overlay to show the time zones around the world.
  • Have students complete a City/Country Scavenger Hunt
  • Examining physical characteristics of the countries using the “Land Features” distributed database.
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  • Have students create a tour of countries where Canada exports goods. Have students create a tour of countries where Canada imports goods.
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      Can substitute your country or region for Canada.
  • Give each student a topic, character from history or a region, and let them annotate their placemarks and present it. Students can then share their Google map files.
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