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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.

Google Earth How To's - Learn how to do the basics so you are comfortable teaching with Google Earth Student Controlled - Where the student controls Google Earth. Suitable for labs, mini-labs, home school, etc. Teacher Controlled - Suitable for Lectures, Presentations, whole class discussions, etc. Mini-Lessons - Lesson starters for looking at various topics

Very cool site that creates events to focus around a theme for the whole world to take panoramic photos. View the current and past events and all the photos on the site.

Join the MapSkip community in exploring the world through shared stories and pictures about all the places in our lives.

* 360 Cities brings interactive, panoramic photography to the mainstream. We host, commission and develop the visual geo-web through high quality panoramic imagery.

A great site for self-contained trips, complete with worksheets, interactive-flash "visits", and the opportunity to chat or write questions to a real expert.

MyGreatWorld.com is a free and fast photo community and a visual database of locations, starring the cities and landscapes of our planet Earth.

Map quizzes of all kinds!  Great for testing knowledge of maps...

kmlfactbook.org can use either Google Maps or the Google Earth browser plugin to preview the KML files that you create. To switch between the two modes press the 2D Map and 3D Map buttons to the right in the screen. The Preview in Map button will show the selected data-set in the Google Maps or Earth plugin preview window. The Download KML file button will download the same file to be saved locally on your disk or opened in the standalone Google Earth application.

Scribble Maps is the quick and easy way to rapidly make and share maps! With Scribble Maps you can: -Draw shapes and Scribble! -Please Markers and text -Create a Custom Widget -Save as KML/GPX -Send maps to friends Whether it is planning a vacation, or plotting a hiking trail, Scribble Maps can help you out!

Hundreds of educational games, activities, quizzes, articles and more, for kids and everyone to use online - and free!

Technology is an integral and growing part of daily living in the twenty-first century. The challenge, then, for teachers, is to use technology effectively in classrooms to help students take ownership for learning and develop the practical and critical thinking skills necessary to better understand the world around them. To meet this challenge, teachers can use an emerging technology tool, GPS receivers, and an emerging GPS-based activity, geocaching, to transform their classrooms from teacher-centered environments to exciting, empowering, exploratory environments that focus on student engagement in the learning process.

Yes, today's post is another freebie for teachers featuring webcam feeds you could be incorporating into your classroom. Consider these as teleportation devices to many of the world's greatest landmarks, national parks, and historical significance. In addition they are virtual eyes that allow students to study animal behavior patterns and habitats. Possibly they could be regarded as voyeuristic tools where students can ride along with a big rig truck driver or observe the physics of skateboard parks. The choices are vast, but they do bring a bit of the outside world into the walls of your classroom.

kmlfactbook.org allows you to create Google Earth KML files from your own custom data.

In the spirit of Geocaching, Educaching is a curriculum that uses GPS technology to create an innovative learning atmosphere. Exciting lesson plans, unique ideas, and helpful strategies that incorporate the national teaching standards provide a road map to make education challenging, rewarding, and fun.

SELECT a subject from the top menu and watch the countries on the map change their size. Instead of land mass, the size of each country will represent the data for that subject --both its share of the total and absolute value.

This blog is not officially affiliated with Google. Google Earth Blog is dedicated to sharing the best news, interesting sights, technology, and happenings for Google Earth. You will find the most amazing and interesting Google Earth news stories and content you can download right off the site. Learn how to take data from your GPS, map it into Google Earth, and share it with friends or the world. Learn when new releases of Google Earth come out, hear about new technologies and features, or check out the links to dozens of other Google Earth web sites.

Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together, from across different generations, cultures and places, to share small glimpses of the past and to build up the huge story of human history.Everyone has history to share: whether its sitting in yellowed albums in the attic, collected in piles of crackly tapes, conserved in the 1000s of archives all over the world or passed down in memories and old stories.Each of these pieces of history finds a home on Historypin, where everyone has the chance to see it, add to it, learn from it, debate it and use it to build up a more complete understanding of the world.