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"With Google Earth, you can create awesome tours, taking viewers on a virtual trip from place to place. You can enhance your tours with narration, images, videos, text, and other types of information. The tours you create can even be embedded into a website. "

Categories to view in Google Earth such as Amusement Parks, Ancient Construction, and Large Artifacts.

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.

Collection of Google Earth files to view recreated 3-D models of buildings from the American Civil War ( like Fort Sumter ).

the entire tom barrett series of interesting ways to use: twitter, wiki search enggines, voicethread, prezi, google docs, interactive whiteboard, google earth, & wordle inthe classroom

"Learn tips and tricks to explore the world, find interesting places and share content with others. Follow this hands-on learning game at your own pace until you complete each level and become a true explorer!"

"Bring your language learners into the 21st century by connecting them with the world. Through the use of Web 2.0 tools such as Wikis, Blogs, VoiceThread, Google Earth, Epals.com and others, you can not only connect your students with other language learners, but with target-language speakers from all corners of the globe."

One of the wonders of the Internet is that it can bring the world to you instead of your needing to find the time and money to explore the traditional way. The following virtual tours bring opportunities to explore cities, famous landmarks and buildings, museums, college campuses, and even outer space. You can learn how things are made, explore the human body or that of a life-sized whale, and visit ball parks and theme parks. There is even a section of incredible virtual tours that Google Earth has compiled that shares the world in a whole new way.

Google Earth view of the world's nuclear reactors.

Ever wonder what is on the opposite points on the globe from where you are right now? Zefrank is a Google Maps website that shows you exactly any two opposite points on the globe.

Look at the inside of a submarine, explore cities. Cool!