Google+Earth

Get the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

[|Download Google Earth 6]

//The videos below will help get you started using Google Earth.//

 * =====[|Street View]=====
 * =====[|3D Trees]=====
 * =====[|Historical Imagery]=====
 * =====[|Navigation]=====
 * =====[|Searching for Places]=====
 * =====[|Drawing and Measuring]=====
 * =====[|Placemarks and Tours]=====
 * =====[|Exploring Mars, Moon and Sky]=====
 * =====[|Moon in Google Earth]=====

//These videos are for the more experienced Google Earth user. Learn how to use more advanced features.//

 * [|Recording a Tour]
 * [|Importing KML, KMZ and GPS Data]
 * [|Geotagging Photos]

Geo Education - Classroom Ideas

Check out these [|suggested activities] that use Google Earth, Maps, and SketchUp to bring conservation and environmental themes alive for your students. || Here are some other ideas for using Google Earth and Google Maps in your classroom:
 * || **[[image:http://www.google.com/educators/images/earthday_tempchange_sm.gif width="69" height="60" align="left" caption="EarthDay"]]Need ideas?**
 * **Art History**
 * Search for photos and user-created maps showing famous museums like the [|Louvre] in Paris.
 * **Biology & Ecology**
 * Track routes of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe Forest. See the Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee blog [|here].
 * Create a short quiz like [|this one].
 * **Environmental Science & Climatology**
 * Have students check Alaska's global warming problems. See how the Sierra Club used Google Earth to depict this problem [|here].
 * See how Google and the United Nations Environment Programme teamed up to use collaborative MyMaps for the I[|nternational Cleanup Weekend Initiative].
 * Use [|this] Google Maps Mashup to locate and learn about recent earthquakes around the world.
 * Celebrate the 2007-2008 International Polar Year and add your classroom's plans to this [|global map].
 * **Geology**
 * Find images, links, and descriptions, with information about thousands of volcanoes around the globe, thanks to organizations like the [|Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program.]
 * **Global Awareness**
 * Study the [|Crisis in Darfur] with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's unprecedented project.
 * **History**:
 * Explore [|Tutankhamun's Tomb.]
 * Take a virtual tour of the 21 [|California Missions]
 * **Literature & Humanities**
 * Bring class or contemporary tales to life with [|Google LitTrips].
 * Have your students scout film shoot locations like [|this] teacher did with //The Golden Compass//
 * **Math**
 * Explore distance, velocity, and wave properties of [|tsunamis].
 * **Physics**
 * Learn how one [|teacher] used Google Maps with his 9th grade class to teach speed, velocity and displacement.
 * **Earth Science**
 * GeoTours []

//Lessons://
 * [|Student Controlled]** - Where the student controls Google Earth. Suitable for labs, mini-labs, home school, etc.
 * [|Teacher Controlled]** - Suitable for Lectures, Presentations, whole class discussions, etc.