Lesson+Ideas

=Google Earth Lesson Ideas=

Here are some example lesson ideas from Google For Educators that use Google Earth as well as other Google tools to create interactive and exciting lessons.

**Google Earth in the Classroom** Google Earth is a free, downloadable application that combines satellite imagery, maps, 3D terrain and 3D buildings to create a highly realistic virtual globe. Teachers and students can create their own virtual tours and share them with others. They can explore content developed by organizations such as NASA, Discovery Education, Jane Goodall and others. In addition, Google Earth now allows students and teachers to turn their gaze upward to explore the night sky in staggering detail.

History, Geography and the Impact of Photography Explore with your students the power of images and their impact on history as they research, select and evaluate photographs in an interactive and collaborative lesson. Incorporate geographic literacy into the experience by challenging them to focus on the significance of the place, captured in time, that influenced events.
 * A Place in Time with Google Tools**

**A Candidate Watch with Google Tools ** Geography, Politics and Civic Literacy As the 2008 presidential election gets underway, use collaborative interactive tools to engage your students in the election story. With a project based approach, help them follow the issues, the politics and use analysis as they become involved in the election process. Earthquake! USGS & Google Earth ** A multimedia introduction to Plate Tectonics & Earth movement Introduce students to plate tectonics with the multimedia elements in the Google Earth tours created by the United States Geological Survey. Students explore, analyze and create scenarios as they learn about seismic activity both past and present in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world.
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As you explore Google Earth and develop lesson ideas, please share them in the discussion forum of this wiki. Your experiences can help others venture into the world of Google Earth and open up their classrooms to places of awe and wonder.

To become involved in the Google Earth community, get more great ideas, or find out what others are doing, move on to the Blogs and Forums page.