Google+Earth+Resources

• Create tours of their school or community • Study climate change and the effects of global warming • Track earthquakes in real-time • Explore the animal kingdom and endangered species with National Geographic content • Create novel journeys, for setting and place; create a biography of an author • Track battle movements • Set the scene for geography, history, literature, astronomy and other lessons • Adapt traditionally abstract lessons to the “real-world” by having students interact with virtual real-time data such as weather, earthquakes, bird migrations, etc. • Engage students in pro-active engagement in a wide- range of Google Outreach projects from Jennifer Dorman, Discovery Education, - [|Discovery Education streaming - Google Earth.pdf] GoogleLitTrips - the best known site for ideas for English/Language Arts - has professional, teacher and student-made files, and tutorials RealMath.org - the best known site for ideas for Math - full and complete lesson plans Classroom Ideas - from the Google Educator site
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Assignment

**The links below are to tutorials, curriculum ideas and lesson plans.** Google Earth community forums - answers to all your questions Home - Google Earth for Eucators - Learn More, Connect with Others Track active volcanoesfrom Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program Active volcanoes, World Population Density, Rising Sea Level from Google Ed

Tutorials
Google Earth Across the Curriculum from Free Technology for Teachers - entry level User Guide from the SERC lab, also lesson plans available for science FREE Google Earth Webinars GLT contributor [|Thomas Cooper] presents great Google Earth tutorials. Next Webinar: [|4/26 at 8p EST.] The topic will be Graphic Design Principles. You can download the following Elluminate archived webinars: Part I: [|Getting to Know Earth] Part II: [|Creating Basic Placemarks] Part III: [|Layouts with Tables (Pt1)] Part IV: [|Creating Tours] Part V - [|Embedding Objects]