Google+Earth

=__Google Earth__=

What is Google Earth! media type="custom" key="3346120"

__**Handout**__
[|GoogleEarthHandout.pdf]

__Videos__
What's New in Google Earth 5.0! media type="youtube" key="GSuJq4UzkIA" height="385" width="640"

Exploring the Ocean! media type="youtube" key="KOG-iAiDiko" height="385" width="640"

Historical Imagery media type="youtube" key="FOR0fPTx-os" height="385" width="640"

Video Tutorial using Google Earth media type="custom" key="3000248"

Whats new with Google Sky. A trip to Mars! media type="youtube" key="8QtXFLL7Y2g" height="385" width="640"

__Resources__
[|Google Earth Users Guide] - Users guide for the latest version of Google Earth Version

[|Google Earth Video Help] - Video tutorials on the various features in Google Earth

[|Google Earth Lessons] - A Free Public Resource - Providing Teachers with the tools needed to enhance their instruction using Google Earth, the free program that brings the world to the classroom!

[|Google and Discovery Education] - Google and Discovery Education have teamed up to make it easier for K-12 educators to use technology in the classroom. We've created a series of lesson plans that use Discovery Education //unitedstreaming// and a couple of Google products, Earth and SketchUp, to teach social studies, language arts, math and geography. Available for elementary, middle and high school classrooms, these lessons are available for download right here on the Google for Educators site

[|Google Earth for Educators] - Use Google Earth demos to get your students excited about geography, and use different Google Earth layers to study economics, demographics, and transportation in specific contexts.

[|Google Earth Gallery] - Search for downloadable KMZ files to share with your students. These files KMLs (for Keyhole Markup Language): what HTML is to regular Internet browsers, KML is to geographic browsers.

[|KMZ Links] - Spectacular satellite images of the world

[|Google Earth Community] - Resources and discussion about Google Earth from users across the globe

[|Google Earth Blog] - All about Google Earth: news, features, tips, satellite photos, and applications.

[|Google Lit Trips] - This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!

[|Google Sketchup] - Create, modify and share 3D models

[|Spell with Google Maps] - An [|example]- and [|here] - just for fun. This won't raise a test score, for sure, but it's a good example of a mashup.