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

"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. "

Presentation given by Jason Heiser at the 2008 Keystone Integrator's Summit.

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

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.

A great collection of Google Earth bookmarks and resources

Gallery of pre-made tours

The Official Google Earth Tutorials

The Official Google Earth Help Center

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.

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

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.