Google Earth and Google Maps can be accessed on a varitety of devices - Smart phones, iPads, tablets, iTouch, Mac or PC. As universal learning tools they have the capacity to create context and understanding, develop literacy skills and become immersed learning environments.
They are powerful tools to introduce a lesson or, as a hands-on opportunity for students to plot a story narrative, relive an expedition or travel back in time.
In this hands-on workshop, conference delegates will learn how to use participants will learn how apply Google Maps and Google Earth to classroom instruction examining. They will examine possibilities for raising students, as producers and collaborators, to a higher level of thinking. To do this they will:
Explore similarities and differences between these mapping tools
Navigating and searching in Google Maps and Google Earth
Customize Google Map Placemarks with text, links and images
Explore the various features of Google Earth
Share Custom Google Maps with links and as embedded maps on webpages
Use Google Earth custom KML/KMZ files created by others
Create Google Earth custom KML/KMZ web tours based on Lit Trips model, and share them. nana
NearMap - an Australian mapping product Scribble Maps - simple map making integrated with Google Maps Google Earth Knowledge - Virtual Globe Geo Greeting - fun tool - send a greeting written in shapes from Google Earth Google Art Project - walk through the major museums and art galleries of the world - virtually. Build your own album StrataLogicapowered by Google Maps - maps, charts, atlases and data to produce interactive visualisations Click Here.
Google Earth & Google Maps making learning real
Google Earth and Google Maps can be accessed on a varitety of devices - Smart phones, iPads, tablets, iTouch, Mac or PC. As universal learning tools they have the capacity to create context and understanding, develop literacy skills and become immersed learning environments.
They are powerful tools to introduce a lesson or, as a hands-on opportunity for students to plot a story narrative, relive an expedition or travel back in time.
Chrome Experiments - The Wilderness Downtown
Note: Street View and Earth View
Earth view comes to Google Maps
Google Maps 3D samples
In this hands-on workshop, conference delegates will learn how to use participants will learn how apply Google Maps and Google Earth to classroom instruction examining. They will examine possibilities for raising students, as producers and collaborators, to a higher level of thinking. To do this they will:
Google Lit Trips
Google Lit Trips Homepage by Jerome BurgGoogle Lit Trips - Downloadable tips step-by-step guides - apply to any use of Google Earth
Google Lit Trips lesson
Exploring Google Lit Trips
Expedition Lit Trips - Thomas Cooper
Google Historical Voyages and Events global project by Carol LaRow
Google Earth - the software and getting started
Google Earth downloadTours in Google Earth - very explicit instructions for getting started
Five cool, easy things you can do in Google Earth -- a good place to start
Google Earth Outreach Tutorials
Google Earth User Guide Version 5 - comprehensive guide for GE 5 and above.
Google Earth and Maps - Best Extras
Celebrating the heroes of Google Earth
## Google Earth Gallery
Google Earth Hacks
Google Earth community
Google Earth for EducatorsGoogle Earth Outreach Community
Google Earth blog
Google Earth Sightseer newsletter
Google Sightseeing
The unOfficial Google Earth blog
Google Earth Community
Podcasts on using Google Earth from the Florida Center for Instructional Technology
Integrating Google Tools 4 Teachers - Google Earth - Colette Cassineli
## One World Many Stories - Google Earth stories arranged in themes, community contribution invited
Teaching with Google Maps and Google Earth
Create your own .kmz files with ThematicMapping - blog post with detailUSGS Global Earthquake Program
Basics of using Timeline slider
Google Earth Outreach - YouTube
Google Earth Video help - YouTube
Learn Google Earth Navigation - YouTube
History Tours - 6 tours by European history students
Lesson Plans - only some of the many
Google Earth for Educators - lessonsJuicy Geography Google Earth Lessons
Google Earth Plan on Shambles - extensive list of teaching resources
50 ways to use Google Earth in the Classroom
A complete guide to using Google Earth in the GeoScience classroom
Google UK School - history and geography lessons - British Empire, slave trade, castles
US History Tours powered by Google Earth- Revolutionary War, Path to Civil War, Road to Civil Rights, Vietnam Conflict
Google Earth and Discovery Education American Revolution, Great monuments of the World
Real World Math using Google Earth
Google Earth - Real Life Use
Google Earth helps discover rare hominid ancestor in South AfricaGiant archaeological trove found in Google Earth
Feral Scan - Camel Scan - tracking wild camels in outback Australia
Google Maps - an easy alternative to Google Earth (3D)
Google Treks - (2D) in Google Maps - across the curriculum, prep to adult activitiesPompei Street View in Google Maps
## Other Map Tools
NearMap - an Australian mapping productScribble Maps - simple map making integrated with Google Maps
Google Earth Knowledge - Virtual Globe
Geo Greeting - fun tool - send a greeting written in shapes from Google Earth
Google Art Project - walk through the major museums and art galleries of the world - virtually. Build your own album
StrataLogicapowered by Google Maps - maps, charts, atlases and data to produce interactive visualisations Click Here.