One of my goals for the workshop is to help participants establish ideas for utilizing 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 utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps in numerous subject areas.
In Google Earth and on Googles My Maps services your students can develop their own trips highlighting essential places in a book or crucial locations in the life of an author.
ArtBy utilizing Googles My Maps tools or the desktop variation of Google Earth, students can map the areas of where a piece of regional art is housed, where it was created, and the places that motivated the artist.

Later on this week Im performing an online expert advancement workshop about Google Earth and Maps. One of my objectives for the workshop is to help participants develop concepts for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps for more than just location and history lessons. To that end Ive created a list of ideas and resources for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps in numerous subject areas.
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 students can create their own tours highlighting crucial locations in a book or essential locations in the life of an author.
ScienceGoogle Earth supplies a great way for students to explore intriguing geological landmarks in 3D. Using the timeslider in the desktop version of Google Earth can show trainees the modifications in a landscape due to disintegration and other natural and manufactured forces.
There is no scarcity of lesson strategies featuring Google Earth readily 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 class there is probably no much better place to begin than on Tom Barretts Maths Maps website. There you will find brief, Google Maps-based activities that need students to use and carry out measurements arithmetic to respond to questions. The activities represent an excellent mix of mathematics and geography.
If you have intermediate school or high school trainees, 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 preparing safe walking, hiking, and biking paths. You can also utilize Google Earth to help students comprehend how elevation change modifies the speed at which paths are completed.
ArtBy utilizing Googles My Maps tools or the desktop variation 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 inspired the artist. Each placemark on a trainees map might consist of an image of the art work, an image of the artist, and or a video about the art and artist. To provide a total image a trainee can consist of text and links to more details about the art and artist.

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