One of my goals for the workshop is to help individuals establish ideas for using Google Earth and Google Maps for more than just geography and history lessons. To that end Ive put together a short list of concepts and resources for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps in several subject areas.
In Google Earth and on Googles My Maps services your trainees can develop their own trips highlighting important places in a book or essential places in the life of an author.
ArtBy using Googles My Maps tools or the desktop variation of Google Earth, trainees can map the places of where a piece of local art is housed, where it was created, and the places that inspired the artist.

Later on this week Im performing an online professional development workshop about Google Earth and Maps. One of my goals for the workshop is to assist individuals establish ideas for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps for more than just location and history lessons. To that end Ive created a brief list of ideas and resources for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps in several disciplines.
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 trainees can produce their own tours highlighting crucial places in a book or important places in the life of an author.
ScienceGoogle Earth provides a terrific way for students to explore fascinating geological landmarks in 3D. Using 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 advise looking 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 place to begin than on Tom Barretts Maths Maps website. There you will discover short, Google Maps-based activities that need students to utilize and perform measurements arithmetic to respond to concerns. The activities represent a terrific combination of mathematics and geography.
If you have middle school or high school trainees, you will wish to check out Real World Math. On Real World Math you will discover lesson plans that use Google Earth for teaching the concepts utilized in computing volume of solids, timezones, and rocketry..
Physical EducationPerhaps my preferred usage of Googles My Maps is for preparing safe walking, hiking, and biking routes. You can likewise utilize Google Earth to assist trainees comprehend how elevation modification alters the speed at which paths are completed.
ArtBy using Googles My Maps tools or the desktop variation of Google Earth, students can map the places of where a piece of regional art is housed, where it was produced, and the places that influenced the artist. Each placemark on a trainees map could consist of a picture of the artwork, an image of the artist, and or a video about the art and artist. To offer a total picture a trainee can consist of text and links to more info about the art and artist.

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