One of my goals for the workshop is to help participants establish concepts for using Google Earth and Google Maps for more than just 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 several subject areas.
In Google Earth and on Googles My Maps services your trainees can create their own trips highlighting crucial places in a book or essential 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 developed, and the places that inspired the artist.

Later today Im carrying out an online expert development workshop about Google Earth and Maps. One of my goals for the workshop is to assist individuals develop ideas for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps for more than just location and history lessons. To that end Ive assembled a short list of concepts and resources for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps in multiple subject areas.
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 tours based upon books and authors. In Google Earth and on Googles My Maps services your students can develop their own tours highlighting important locations in a book or important places in the life of an author.
ScienceGoogle Earth offers a fantastic method for students to check out fascinating geological landmarks in 3D. Utilizing the timeslider in the desktop version of Google Earth can show trainees the modifications in a landscape due to erosion and other natural and manufactured forces.
There is no lack of lesson plans featuring Google Earth available online. A couple that I recommend taking a look 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 begin than on Tom Barretts Maths Maps website. There you will discover brief, Google Maps-based activities that require students to use and carry out measurements math to address questions. The activities represent a great mix of mathematics and geography.
If you have intermediate school or high school students, you will desire to explore Real World Math. On Real World Math you will find lesson strategies that make use of Google Earth for teaching the ideas used in computing volume of solids, timezones, and rocketry..
Physical EducationPerhaps my preferred usage of Googles My Maps is for planning safe walking, hiking, and biking routes. You can also utilize Google Earth to help trainees understand how elevation change modifies the speed at which routes are finished.
ArtBy utilizing 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 produced, and the locations that motivated the artist. Each placemark on a students map might consist of an image of the artwork, 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 details about the art and artist.

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