#1 Google lit trips
Check out some books as categorized by the site by grade level:
K-5: ~ Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
~ By the Great Horn Spoon - Sid Fleishman
~ Bud Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis
6-8: ~ The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
~ Esperanza Rising - Pam Munoz Ryan
9-12: ~ Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
~ Candide - Voltaire
Higher Ed: ~ The Road - Cormac McCarthy
~ Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Happy Globe-hopping!
#2 America: A narrative history - US history tours
- Pre-Columbian Sites and Their Significance
- The Revolutionary War
- The Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Indian-Removal
- Mixed-Heritage Peoples
- The Path to Civil War
- Civil War Battles
- The Right to Vote: American Women's Suffrage
- The Emergence of a National Park System
- Conflicts in WWII: Pearl Harbor, Midway, D-Day, Stalingrad, Okinawa & Others
- The Road to Civil Rights
- Highways and Suburbs
- Vietnam Conflicts: Dien bien Phu, Ia Drang, Khe Sanh, My Lai, Kent State & Others
- The 20th Century Power Grid: From Hydro-Electric to Nuclear Power
#3 Our Google'd Earth - Google Earth for Science
This site was a project completed by educators and high school students in development with The Geological Society of America that acts as a great tutorial for using Google Earth in the classroom. Towards the bottom of the page are "Links for Earth Science Classes," wherein you can find several categories for .KMZ files. Previews below: |
- Hawaiian "Chain" Hot Spot scars (Thanks, Dave Robison) (.kmz)
- Sinkholes on the French coast (Thanks, Matt Wasilawski) (.kmz)
- Alaska glaciology (Thanks, Garrett Armbruster) (.kmz)
- Glacial Valley Tour Uinta Mts., Utah (Thanks, Brandt Kayser) (.kmz)
- Barringer Impact Crater (.kmz)
- Opposing longshore drift directions, Atlantic City (jpg)
- And many more...
#4 Lesson Plans - Google EDU Site
Further sections of the site for educators include:
Features for My Class
Learn how different Google Earth features can be used in an educational setting
Projects for My Subject
Discover ways Google Earth can be used for your specific subject, including lesson plans!
Lesson Plan Library
Check out lesson plans created by teachers for teachers, and submit your own.
Information shared from Google (click picture for link)
#5 Lesson Plans - Duke.Edu blog
The next set of plans (click link to view site) comes from a brilliant professor and Dr. at Duke University who made her students do the work for her! There are links to lesson plans as well as step-by-step tutorials for getting started on Google Earth as a teacher. Some of the highlights are: Secondary and University Level All Quiet on the Western Frony Ancient Rome 3D A Virtual Tour of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake British Empire Primary Animal Habitats Battlefield Walks Chocolate and Fair Trade Climate Change Development Endangered Planet Project Exploring Time Zones Google Earth is Our Paper |
#6 - History Tours
World History Tours
Examples: Impressionist Art
World War II
U.S. History Tours
Examples: Revolutionary/Civil War sites
Presidential life tours
Non-Google Earth Services and Alternative Tours
Lesson Plan and Ideas
How to Create
#7 - Blog post - OnlineUniversities.com - "100 Incredible & Educational Virtual Tours You Don’t Want to Miss"
- Famous landmarks and buildings
- Museums
- College campuses
- Outer space
- Explore the human body
- Ball parks
- Theme parks
- Google Earth - Virtual Tours
#8 - Teaching with google earth
#9 - Google developers Showcase
The first project is a 3D San Francisco Bay tour, which is a Google Maps development, rather than Google Earth, however if anyone is teaching California geography the students can actually turn their learning into a game.
Another great project on the site is the Cycling the Alps maps tour. This rides you through the alps and can share the geography of the region, complete with landmarks.
Finally (however this is just the tip of the iceberg of projects on the site), the HistoryPin (copyright Shift) Google Maps project gives you a Maps overlay that shows user-uploaded historical photos of many regions of the world.
#10 - Before-and-after views of Sendai, Japan in Google Earth
happy touring.