Google Earth
Google Earth was one of the few tools I was sad to give up when moving from laptops
to Chromebooks in my previous district. Students were highly engaged in using Google Earth to explore their own community as well as the world around them. So I was super excited when Google recently announced the release of a web version of Google Earth that works on the Chromebooks. There is also an App for Google Earth for the iPads.Google Earth is a great tool to use for grades K-12. |
Integration Ideas
- Virtual Field Trips: Locate and bookmark locations and "play" them back as a presentation to your students. Students can also create a list of bookmarks to
share with their classmates. - Google Earth Walks for Math, Social and Science: Download teacher-made
trips that have students solve problems as they travel a virtual field trip. The
placemarks on the trips engage students to apply what they are learning. - Google Lit Trips: Map the location of events in a book and plot them on
Google Earth and share the virtual trip with others. See GoogleLits.org site to download trips already created by others that include text, images and video
related to events and details in the books. - Google Earth Scavenger Hunts: Give students clues to locations and have
them submit screenshots of their answer/location.
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