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Monday is President's Day in the United States. In celebration of that day, Google has published a new kmz file containing images and links to information about each former President of the United States. You can download the file and launch it in Google Earth or view it here using the Google Earth browser plug-in. The file shows where each president was from, offers an image of each president, provides a link to more information about each president, and shows how many states were in the Union when each president was elected.

As teachers, we are always searching for ways to make our classrooms "come alive." Google Earth has done this for us. Inspired by Kelly Tenkely's recent flight adventures using Google Earth, I decided to begin looking for ways to incorporate the idea of a virtual flight into our learning adventures. To give a little background, we are studying the Middle Ages this school year and are currently focusing on the Diaspora of the Jews after the destruction of the Temple by the Romans around 70 AD.

"The over 120 historical maps in the Google Maps have been selected by David Rumsey from his collection of more than 150,000 historical maps; in addition, there are a few maps from collections with which he collaborates. These maps can also be seen in the Gallery layer of Google Earth, Rumsey Historical Maps layer, and in the Google Earth viewers on this website."

"Informing you about 3D models of Civil War related places, buildings, and structures that are featured in Google Earth or created with the Sketchup software."

Have you ever wondered how your favorite place used to look like 50 or 100 years ago? Would you like to refresh your childhood memories and find out what your native town looked like when you were a kid. If "yes" is the answer to either of the questions, you'll find the three projects shared in this post quite exciting. They have a few things in common: they all support Google Maps for you to easily find the place you are interested in. They all have Google Earth integrated for you to get the location 3D view and they allow users to upload old photographs of any geographical locations.

Earth Album is a simpler, slicker Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google maps and Flickr. To begin your journey, just click somewhere on the map, e.g. "India". Note-- since the top Flickr images are used, the images change every few weeks; bookmark this site and check back for a different experience in a month!

Google Earth tours about historical events and figures

Provides photos and experiences of survivors of Nagasaki using Google Earth.

Could be supplemented by the Visualizing Cultures site: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/groundzero1945/index.html

A model of the Berlin Wall in Google Earth, from virtual Berlin

I tried using this 3d virtual model of ancient Rome in Google Earth but couldn't get it running. It looks supercool (and useful) so if anyone can get it working Id love to know how you did it.

3D models of Ancient Rome

This looks very cool. Quite big (2G) but maybe you can talk to the ICT department... I saw a similar thing for Ancient Rome on Google Earth but you need a powerful computer to run it and my laptop wasn't up to the job. Gen-Y is so visual, things like this can be great tools.

Google Earth Layers that also connect to Norton Publishing.

This site has some good Web 2.0 based resources, including ready-made Google Earth flyovers, overlays and 3-D models.