Later on today Im performing an online expert development workshop about Google Earth and Maps. One of my goals for the workshop is to help participants develop ideas for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps for more than simply geography and history lessons. To that end Ive created a list of ideas and resources for using Google Earth and Google Maps in several subject locations.
Language ArtsGoogle Lit Trips is most likely the most popular example of utilizing Google Earth in the context of language arts. Google Lit Trips are Google Earth trips based on books and authors. In Google Earth and on Googles My Maps services your trainees can create their own trips highlighting important locations in a book or important locations in the life of an author.
ScienceGoogle Earth supplies a terrific way for trainees to check out intriguing geological landmarks in 3D. Utilizing the timeslider in the desktop variation of Google Earth can reveal trainees the changes in a landscape due to erosion and other natural and man-made forces.
There is no lack of lesson strategies including Google Earth available online. A couple that I suggest looking at are Rich Treves flooding and volcano lessons and Whats a Watershed developed at the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College.
MathFor K-5 classrooms there is most likely no much better location to start than on Tom Barretts Maths Maps website. There you will find brief, Google Maps-based activities that require students to perform measurements and utilize arithmetic to address concerns. The activities represent a fantastic mix of mathematics and geography.
If you have intermediate school or high school trainees, you will wish to explore Real World Math. On Real World Math you will find lesson strategies that utilize Google Earth for teaching the ideas utilized in determining volume of solids, timezones, and rocketry..
Physical EducationPerhaps my preferred usage of Googles My Maps is for preparing safe walking, hiking, and biking paths. You can also utilize Google Earth to help students comprehend how elevation modification alters the speed at which routes are completed.
ArtBy using Googles My Maps tools or the desktop version of Google Earth, students can map the locations of where a piece of local art is housed, where it was developed, and the locations that influenced the artist. Each placemark on a students map could consist of an image of the artwork, an image of the artist, and or a video about the art and artist. To offer a complete image a student can consist of text and links to more information about the art and artist.

One of my goals for the workshop is to help individuals establish concepts for using Google Earth and Google Maps for more than simply geography and history lessons. To that end Ive put together a short list of concepts and resources for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps in numerous subject areas.
In Google Earth and on Googles My Maps services your trainees can create their own tours highlighting important locations in a book or crucial places in the life of an author.
ArtBy utilizing Googles My Maps tools or the desktop version of Google Earth, trainees can map the areas of where a piece of regional art is housed, where it was developed, and the locations that inspired the artist.

For some inspiration on this subject have a look at Monet Was Here on Google Arts & & Culture.