Classroom+Ideas

=Some suggested ways to use Google Earth in your classroom:=

• 50 State projects or Country projects where each student is assigned an area and creates a Google Earth tour to spotlight significant features of their area • Examining a family's immigration, inserting family photos and narratives • The 'new' get to know you activity for back to school--- have each student upload a photo as the place mark, write a brief narrative and include links to things they are interested in or show other places they have lived/attended school • Virtual Field Trips • Summarizing and sharing about a field trip they took • Political maps showing change throughout the years • Studying biomes/climates/geographical features • Examining community development (turns on the community services layer and discuss school placements, fire department locations, etc...) • Creating place marks for colleges across the county and linking to their websites • Digitizing a Flat Stanley project • Using as a warm up or game -- "Name this Place" • Math!! o Measuring distances between areas o Proving theorems (Pythagorean) o Top-down views o 3-D shapes

//Thanks to C. Lane//