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"10 Unique And Amazing Places on Earth"

"The following on-line and classroom activities are available on partner web sites and were developed by Interactive Earth since 2000. Please review our overview of teaching methodology to understand how we create our curriculum resources and lesson plans. Lessons plans that include interactive games for students are marked with a star."

Very cool site providing Google Earth in two side-by-side windows allowing for compare/contrast activities. 

The tour focuses on the last days of President Lincoln and his killer, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth.

Can You Find the Mystery Class Sites? In this global game of hide-and-seek, students search to uncover the secret locations of ten "mystery" sites hiding around the Earth. To guide the investigation, they track changes in day length at the mystery sites and at their hometown, and use other "clues" along the way. As they take this inspiring journey, students unlock the essential questions behind the reasons for seasons and the dramatic changes in day length that result. Mystery Class starts in early February but you can get ready now.

Can You Find the Mystery Class Sites? In this global game of hide-and-seek, students search to uncover the secret locations of ten "mystery" sites hiding around the Earth. To guide the investigation, they track changes in day length at the mystery sites and at their hometown, and use other "clues" along the way. As they take this inspiring journey, students unlock the essential questions behind the reasons for seasons and the dramatic changes in day length that result. Mystery Class starts in early February but you can get ready now.

Discovery Education and 3M have partnered to bring the science of everyday life into your classroom. This fantastic collection of resources is for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. On the site you will find videos and interactives that help kids learn about the science around them and make connections to what they are learning in school. Lessons are inquiry based and encourage exploration in life science, physical science, earth science and technology/innovation. Virtual labs are interactive flash-based labs where students can discover more about science like wind energy. At the Innovation HQ portion of the site, students can travel through time and look at innovations that they use in their every day life and "meet" 3M scientists. On the Student page, students can see a young inventors hall of fame.

"Create planners and calendars easily. New: with holidays Many picture and color themes Landscape and portrait formats in different sizes Calendar languages for almost every region of the earth Application language in english and german Freeware"

"Neither Mathew Ho nor Asad Muhammad can vote, or buy beer. They haven't been accepted to college yet, though that might change after this story. The 17-year-olds have already sent a (Lego) man into space. Two weeks ago, Ho and Muhammad launched a homemade balloon carrying a Lego passenger and four cameras. It fell back down to Earth 97 minutes later with astonishing footage from an estimated 24 kilometres above sea level, three times the typical cruising altitude of a commercial aircraft."

I did this with my kids yesterday as part of our Geography and maths unit that was a real hit and had plenty of learning opportunities to offer.

Planet Quest Alien Safari is a great interactive site for kids. It lets you go on an adventure by exploring different "life zones" around the world. By visiting these, you will find all different types of organisms that are living on our planet. Students get to learn about what the organisms reveal about finding life in space. So, they will learn which can survive without sunlight, which have a high radiation dose, the most acidic and the ones that live the furthest underground, for example. By clicking on a life zone on the 3D Earth, you can watch a video introduction to that organism. This website is a great classroom and research tool. You can use it to simply explore all the things around you, or use it as a starter for deeper learning and researching on a specific subject or topic. Students can really get creative by writing stories and other works of writing based on the subjects and organisms they have been learning about. This site is a great tool to use in the classroom on an interactive whiteboard. With the music and interactive nature of the site, the whole class can get involved with learning about the various organisms. Go on a safari without leaving the room!

"Show Notes In today's episode I talk about how teachers can use Google Lit Trips to engage students into books by showing that non-fiction books are connected to real locations by using Google Earth. http://www.googlelittrips.org/ http://www.bradflickinger.com/Brad_Flickinger/Podcast/Podcast.html"

BARROW COUNTY Schools. iGoogle Google Calendar Google Images Google Reader Google Docs Google Maps Google Search Blogger Free Software Google Earth Picasa Sketchup

Great wiki full of resources for help with all the Google tools

Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center has created their own interactive website using Google Earth.  You can minipulate the sea surface temperature, sea surface height, chlorophyll levels, and ocean wind speeds.