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Explore the World with Google Earth: Resources, Lessons, and Collaboration

Discover how Google Earth can transform education and enhance your teaching experience. Whether you're collaborating with classrooms globally or wanting to bring literature and geography to life through immersive tours, Google Earth offers a wealth of resources like lesson plans, KMZ files, and tutorials. Visit incredible places, learn geographical coordinates, and pre-visit field trips to engage your students creatively. With innovative features such as time sliders and Mars views, explore and inspire your class like never before!

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Explore the World with Google Earth: Resources, Lessons, and Collaboration

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  1. Google Earth Where do you want to go today?

  2. Google Earth Resources • Google Earth Resources  • http://delicious.com/JLWagner/googleearth • Click on this link to subscribe to my delicious links for google earth: • http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/JLWagner/googleearth?count=15 • http://jlwagner.pbworks.com/GoogleEarth

  3. 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) 

  4. 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.

  5. New Features Record Tours Jump Into Google Maps Time Slider 3 Views Mars

  6. KMZ’s & KML’s KMZ/KML FILES A 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/

  7. Overlays

  8. TimeLiner

  9. Google Ocean

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

  11. Google Earth into Google Maps Washington, D.C.

  12. From Here To There

  13. WILD SANCTUARYhttp://earth.wildsanctuary.com/

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

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

  16. 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/

  17. 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/ Google Earth In The News: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=164396 Be Sure To Visithttp://www.googlelittrips.org/

  18. Jen Wagner projectsbyjen@gmail.com

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