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

Later on this week Im carrying out an online professional advancement workshop about Google Earth and Maps. Among my goals for the workshop is to help participants establish concepts for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps for more than just geography and history lessons. To that end Ive put together a list of ideas and resources for using Google Earth and Google Maps in multiple subject locations.
Language ArtsGoogle Lit Trips is most likely the most popular example of using Google Earth in the context of language arts. Google Lit Trips are Google Earth tours based on authors and books. In Google Earth and on Googles My Maps services your students can develop their own tours highlighting important places in a book or important places in the life of an author.
ScienceGoogle Earth supplies a fantastic way for students to explore fascinating geological landmarks in 3D. Utilizing the timeslider in the desktop version of Google Earth can show students the modifications in a landscape due to erosion and other natural and manufactured forces.
There is no lack of lesson plans including Google Earth readily available online. A couple that I suggest taking a look 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 discover brief, Google Maps-based activities that need trainees to perform measurements and use arithmetic to answer questions. The activities represent a fantastic mix of mathematics and location.
If you have intermediate school or high school students, you will wish to check out Real World Math. On Real World Math you will discover lesson strategies that utilize Google Earth for teaching the ideas used in calculating volume of solids, timezones, and rocketry..
Physical EducationPerhaps my preferred usage of Googles My Maps is for preparing safe walking, treking, and biking routes. You can likewise utilize Google Earth to assist trainees comprehend how elevation change alters the speed at which routes are finished.
ArtBy using Googles My Maps tools or the desktop version of Google Earth, trainees can map the locations of where a piece of regional art is housed, where it was produced, and the locations that motivated the artist. Each placemark on a students map could consist of an image of the art work, a picture of the artist, and or a video about the art and artist. To supply a total photo a trainee can include text and links to more information about the art and artist.

One of my objectives for the workshop is to help participants establish ideas for using Google Earth and Google Maps for more than just geography and history lessons. To that end Ive put together a brief list of ideas 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 produce their own trips highlighting crucial places in a book or important locations in the life of an author.
ArtBy utilizing Googles My Maps tools or the desktop version of Google Earth, students can map the areas of where a piece of regional art is housed, where it was created, and the locations that inspired the artist.