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Comprehensive site for information on Google Earth

Greeat resource for Google Earth

Everything you wanted to learn about Google Earth and maps including maps engines lite.

"Google Earth offers the means to display geographic data from a wide variety of sources together in a geospatial context. This data includes imagery for the entire globe at varying resolutions that contains a great deal of interpretable visual information. Students can use it to find their homes, schools, and other locations that are familiar to them. They can make inferences by comparing places to other locations. In addition, students can learn about the world through rich layers of mappable data offered by Google's server and a great deal of third-party content. They can also create and display their own data."

Create digital stories using google earth and storyboard that.

"US History Tours powered by Google Earth. This new format traces historical developments across time, touching down on locations vital to our nation's heritage and development. Points of interest in each tour launch primary and multimedia sources"

" Highlights of the collection includes maps of Mid-Atlantic North America from the 16th through 19th centuries, maps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and more than 1,000 historical maps of New York City. The NYPL's Map Division offers a new tool called the Map Warper for overlaying historical maps on top of current maps. The Map Warper is similar in concept to using historical images as overlays on Google Earth. The difference is that Map Warper doesn't require you to install software on your computer. "

Tutorial on tripline a tool to add images and comments as well as a pathway on a map

alternative to google earth and maps for creating customized maps and trips.

"This site is an extenstive compendium of documentaries, in the form of interactive Google Maps on Historic Events. In a sense it is a library of maps that allow you to do much more than just watch and read. You get to digitally experience the event by finding and zooming in on the locations you read about in the related eBooks."

"Spacehopper is a new geography game [that features geography questions] that are based on Google Maps Street View imagery. Spacehopper shows you a Street View image and you have to guess where in the world the image was captured. You can click the clue button to have the country identified before making a guess. After three incorrect guesses the correct answer will be revealed to you. You can play Spacehopper on a global level or you can specify that you only want to see images from a particular continent."

Tutorials and videos on how to use the new my maps in google

Google map scavenger hunts. You can create your own or play a game already created.

HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.

Might be a useful resource for students esp. if they need additional background info. Links to Khan Academy also

Great interactive to connect google apps with blooms taxonomy.

From Kathy Schrock a really easy way to use google apps to support higher order thinking skills

Explore your world with map themes, data, and tools for customizing your map MapMaker Interactive Explore your world with map themes, data, and tools for customizing your map"

Very interesting site for data analysis

This could be easier to use than google earth. You may want to check this out!

"Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time."

This site looks amazing. Takes google maps to a whole new level.

"a new Google Maps game develop by Google. Smarty Pins presents players with a trivia question that they have to answer by placing a pin on a map. Players earn "miles" for correctly placing a pin on the map. Players can lose miles for answering incorrectly and or taking too long to answer. Games are available in five categories; arts & culture, science & geography, sports & games, entertainment, and history & current events."

Article highlights 5 tools for creating stories via maps. which helps students see how location impacts the historical events. "

lots of options for geography games

From Richard Byrnes, map creation tools

use with google maps. Collect data in a spreadsheet import the url of the data into the map visualization tool and create a visualized timeline.