One of my objectives for the workshop is to assist individuals develop ideas for using Google Earth and Google Maps for more than simply location and history lessons. To that end Ive put together a short list of ideas and resources for using Google Earth and Google Maps in numerous subject locations.
In Google Earth and on Googles My Maps services your trainees can create their own tours highlighting essential places 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, students can map the locations of where a piece of regional art is housed, where it was created, and the locations that motivated the artist.

Later on this week Im performing an online professional advancement workshop about Google Earth and Maps. One of my objectives for the workshop is to help participants develop concepts for using Google Earth and Google Maps for more than simply geography and history lessons. To that end Ive assembled a brief list of concepts and resources for using Google Earth and Google Maps in several subject areas.
Language ArtsGoogle Lit Trips is probably the most popular example of utilizing Google Earth in the context of language arts. Google Lit Trips are Google Earth trips based on authors and books. 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 fantastic method for trainees to explore fascinating geological landmarks in 3D. Using the timeslider in the desktop version of Google Earth can reveal trainees the modifications in a landscape due to erosion and other natural and manufactured forces.
There is no scarcity 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 created at the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College.
MathFor K-5 classrooms there is probably no much better place to start than on Tom Barretts Maths Maps website. There you will find brief, Google Maps-based activities that need trainees to utilize and perform measurements math to respond to concerns. The activities represent a fantastic mix of mathematics and location.
If you have intermediate school or high school students, you will want to check out Real World Math. On Real World Math you will discover lesson plans that use Google Earth for teaching the principles used in computing volume of solids, timezones, and rocketry..
Physical EducationPerhaps my preferred usage of Googles My Maps is for planning safe walking, treking, and cycling routes. You can likewise use Google Earth to help trainees comprehend how elevation modification alters the speed at which paths are finished.
ArtBy using Googles My Maps tools or the desktop version of Google Earth, students can map the places 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 might consist of an image of the art work, a photo of the artist, and or a video about the art and artist. To provide a total photo a trainee can include text and links to more info about the art and artist.

For some motivation on this subject take an appearance at Monet Was Here on Google Arts & & Culture.