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Google Maps are now editable, so students can add or move your school, rec center, or favorite park to help other users find the most accurate information. 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. Learn more. Here are some ideas for using Google Earth in your classroom: * Art History: Search for photos and user-created maps showing famous museums like the Louvre in Paris. * Climatology: Celebrate the 2007-2008 International Polar Year and add your classroom's plans to this global map. * Earth Science: Use this Google Maps Mashup to locate and learn about recent earthquakes around the world. * Environmental Science: See how Google and the United Nations Environment Programme teamed up to use collaborative MyMaps for the International Cleanup Weekend Initiative. * History: Take a virtual tour of the 21 California Missions. * Physics: Learn how one teacher used Google Maps with his 9th grade class to teach speed, velocity and displacement.

"# Demonstrate solving math problems from the board or using manipulatives # Describe a field trip # Book reviews # Visually interpret part of a story or a poem # Interviews with family or staff members for digital storytelling # Tour of the school for new students or parents # Create a commercial for a product, can be great for foreign language # Demonstration of safety procedures or lab experiment in Science # Reinact historical event or video tape a speech in Social Studies # Demonstration of a phenomenon or concept in Science (gravity, simple machines at a playground) # Demonstration of skills in Gym # Film students as they role play for character education # Video tape of lesson or student interaction for professional development strategies # Video podcast for every reason"

We have 7 Flips - contact to the Library or ES if you are interested ... ... and talk to myself or Darrin Schumacher about using them in real life

This is another "science" article plastering Christian faith (embodied in the Catholic church in this instance) as "against knowledge," "unscientific," "luddite" etc. For a refreshing - and less hagiographic perspective - read "Sleepwalkers" and get ready for some interesting insights!

Is this more than a social studies, site - do we have time to "do" this sort of stuff in Science??

Seriously - TED.com is worth visiting once a week