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You may have played around on Google Earth looking for your house, but we are going to look at it further! There are numerous ways to use Google Earth in the classroom. Of course you could have a student look up an authors hometown, topographical map of a country, and even particular landforms. Have you thought about using GE to view the BP oil spill? With GE you can even layer the spill over the state of Louisiana and other places to compare the size!

When was the last time you took your class on a field trip? With GE you can not only take your class on a field trip, but also search for existing trips pre-created. How about creating a GE scavenger hunt? You can create trips which can include pictures, videos, and more! GE even includes a flight simulator. There are numerous items that you can input into GE. If you have a Garmin, you could even input a run into GE. It will include various information such as your heart rate. There are numerous tutorials to get you started.

TeacherTube is another create place to get tutorials. Because there are so many tutorial options depending on how you would like to use GE, it would be easier for you to choose a video to watch from this link.

Would you like some great resources? Below is my Google Earth diigo bookmarks. I will continue to add to them and it will update here. Do you have a Diigo account? You can bookmark sites, tag "google earth," and share with me. They should show up here!

rss url="http://www.diigo.com/rss/user/Tidertechie/%22google+earth%22" link="true" description="true" number="10"

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