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A great collection of Google Earth bookmarks and resources

This community exists to offer a place where teachers and students can share and find information about educational topics that has been organized using Google Earth software. Below are placesets that have been created by Google Earth users that may be useful in an academic setting. If you would like to know more about Google Earth or how to contribute to this community follow the links above.

How to put images in Google Earth using Google Docs to host them

"A Complete Guide to Using Google Earth in the Geoscience Classroom"

"Hosting a KML on Google Docs" How to host a google earth file on Google Docs so you can share it easily with others and/or embed in your website.

"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 familiar 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. "

n November 2007 I began the first of a series of Google presentations gathering together some ideas about the uses of different tools for the classroom. I thought that the easy manner of sharing Google Docs was ideal to collate thoughts, tips and suggestions from teachers and educators all over the world.

Awesome list of activities that can be done with Google Earth in Science.

Companion site to a Google Tools for Schools Boot Camp full of everything you would ever need from Google as an educator.

This website is designed for educators who wish to extend the concepts of the math curriculum beyond the pages of the text. Google Earth is the dynamic tool that will be used to accomplish this. Google Earth provides startling clear satellite views of the globe in an interactive 3D environment. Beyond the visual, users can add placemarks, annotations, photos, and models, as well as measure distances and draw paths. Within this site you will find lesson ideas, examples, and downloads for mathematics that embrace active learning, constructivism, and project-based learning while remaining true to the standards. The initial focus will be for grades 5 and up, but teachers of younger students may be able to find some uses or inspiration from the site. Higher level thinking skills, such as analysis, synthesis, and creativity are encouraged as well as technology skills and social learning. The scope of this site is mathematics, but many lessons lend themselves to interdisciplinary activities also.

Students in 8th grade geopgraphy will create their own tours of important places in the world. All documents necessary for the project are listed here.

Gallery of pre-made tours

The Official Google Earth Tutorials

The Official Google Earth Help Center

A Different Way to Read Great Literature! This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!

Google for Educator's page for Google Earth.

This quick tutorial explains how you can create a Google Tour yourself, and hopefully upload it here. :) As an example, we will create a tour of the capital cities of my country, Australia.

Our collection of Google Earth tours grows by the day, with many contributors adding theirs. All the sights of the world are now at your fingertips right here! * Rate each tour - let everyone know which ones are hot and which are not! * Check out the Hints and Tips page for ideas about creating amazing tours. * If you have improvements or corrections for a tour, you can follow the Upload new version link on each tour page to send your updated one to us! * Two write-ups about GoogleTouring, on hegnar.no and Frankwatching.