What is Google Earth?
Google Earth is a vertural globe that lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others. There is so much that can be done with google earth such as
Explore the moon
Explore Mars in 3D
View historical imagery
Explore the ocean
Your World in 3D
Explore the sky
all theses can be Incorporated into a lesson plan to help as a visual aids to your teaching and lessons. as an ice breaker for this exercise try asking the students to name places they have visited, their home towns or cities they have family. then zoom off google earth goes to show images of theses places. this will intrigue and captivate your students
(all images are from google earth web site ©2010 Google)
Google Earth
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Take a look at these web pages about Google Earth
http://www.gearthblog.com/
http://www.google.com/earth/learn/
http://earth.google.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth
http://www.google.com/gadgets/directory?synd=earth&cat=featured&preview=on
http://earth.google.com/tour.html
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