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

Later on today Im conducting an online professional development workshop about Google Earth and Maps. Among my objectives for the workshop is to assist participants develop ideas for using Google Earth and Google Maps for more than just location and history lessons. To that end Ive put together a brief list of concepts and resources for using Google Earth and Google Maps in numerous disciplines.
Language ArtsGoogle Lit Trips is probably the most popular example of using Google Earth in the context of language arts. Google Lit Trips are Google Earth trips based upon books and authors. In Google Earth and on Googles My Maps services your trainees can create their own tours highlighting important locations in a book or crucial locations in the life of an author.
ScienceGoogle Earth supplies an excellent way for trainees to explore intriguing geological landmarks in 3D. Using the timeslider in the desktop version of Google Earth can reveal students the changes in a landscape due to disintegration and other natural and man-made 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 most likely no much better place to start than on Tom Barretts Maths Maps site. There you will discover short, Google Maps-based activities that require trainees to carry out measurements and use math to address questions. The activities represent a great combination of mathematics and location.
If you have middle school or high school students, you will desire to check out Real World Math. On Real World Math you will discover lesson strategies that use Google Earth for teaching the concepts utilized in calculating volume of solids, timezones, and rocketry..
Physical EducationPerhaps my favorite use of Googles My Maps is for planning safe walking, treking, and biking routes. You can likewise use Google Earth to assist students comprehend how elevation change alters the speed at which paths are completed.
ArtBy utilizing Googles My Maps tools or the desktop version of Google Earth, trainees can map the locations of where a piece of local art is housed, where it was developed, and the places that inspired the artist. Each placemark on a students map could consist of an image of the art work, a photo of the artist, and or a video about the art and artist. To offer a complete photo a student can consist of text and links to more information about the art and artist.

One of my objectives for the workshop is to assist participants develop ideas 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 using Google Earth and Google Maps in numerous subject locations.
In Google Earth and on Googles My Maps services your students can create their own trips highlighting important locations in a book or crucial locations in the life of an author.
ArtBy using Googles My Maps tools or the desktop version of Google Earth, trainees can map the places of where a piece of regional art is housed, where it was developed, and the places that motivated the artist.