Google EarthWhere do you want to go today?

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10 Reasons Why

10.  Totally changes "where I went on my summer vacation" journal entry.

9.    Be teamed with another class (ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD) and collaborate (http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_collaborate.html)

8.    Lesson plans, kmz's, and tutorials, that have been lined up with standards, are available!!

7.    Eliminates the need of flat, wall maps.6.    Bring the locale of a book to life by use of tours.  (IE 

Make Way For Ducklings, Little House On the Prairie or for older students: Around the World in 80 days, Grapes of Wrath) 

10 Reasons Why

5.    Make the world a smaller place.  Create placemarks of family members, e-mail pals, etc.

4.    Ability to turn ANY lesson (geography, history, literature) into a more engaging and memorable experience.

3.    Pre-Visit your upcoming field trip including distance and directions.

2.    Latitude and Longitude coordinates take on much more meaning and understanding.

1.    Visit locations (both present and past -- on earth and in space) that you and your students will probably never see in a lifetime.

New Features

Record Tours

Jump Into Google Maps

Time Slider

3 Views

Mars

KMZ’s & KML’sKMZ/KML FILESA KMZ or KML is a google earth landmark(s).  Once you open the KMZ, it immediately takes you to the location(s) in Google Earth.  ( A KMZ file is simply a "zipped" KML file.)

KML Gallery - http://earth.google.com/gallery/

Overlays

TimeLiner

Google Ocean

Google Mars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_mr-lDng7k

Google Earth into Google Maps

Washington, D.C.

From Here To There

WILD SANCTUARYhttp://earth.wildsanctuary.com/

Flight Simulatorhttp://earth.google.com/intl/en/userguide/v4/flightsim/index.html

Google Earth for iphone/itouchhttp://mashable.com/2008/10/27/google-earth-iphone/

Sketch Uphttp://sketchup.google.com/

•http://sketchup.google.com/vtutorials.html•http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/postlist.php/Cat/0/Board/EarthModels•http://www.sheetmetalguy.com/sketchup-books.htm•http://online.caup.washington.edu/courses/larc440/sketchup/sketchup_home.htm•http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/418795/page/vc/vc/1•http://www.sketchucation.com/old/

And Don’t Forget…

•http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php/Cat/0•http://www.gearthblog.com/basics.html•http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/

Be Sure To Visithttp://www.googlelittrips.org/

Google Earth In The News:

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=164396

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