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

Later on today Im performing an online expert development workshop about Google Earth and Maps. Among my objectives for the workshop is to assist individuals develop ideas for using Google Earth and Google Maps for more than simply geography and history lessons. To that end Ive assembled a list of concepts and resources for using Google Earth and Google Maps in numerous subject locations.
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 on authors and books. In Google Earth and on Googles My Maps services your trainees can produce their own trips highlighting essential places in a book or essential locations in the life of an author.
ScienceGoogle Earth offers a terrific way for trainees to check out interesting 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 strategies featuring Google Earth readily available online. A couple that I recommend 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 class there is most likely no better location to begin than on Tom Barretts Maths Maps website. There you will discover brief, Google Maps-based activities that require trainees to carry out measurements and use math to answer questions. The activities represent a fantastic mix of mathematics and location.
If you have middle school or high school students, you will wish to explore Real World Math. On Real World Math you will discover lesson plans that utilize Google Earth for teaching the principles used in determining volume of solids, timezones, and rocketry..
Physical EducationPerhaps my favorite usage of Googles My Maps is for preparing safe walking, hiking, and biking paths. You can likewise use Google Earth to help trainees understand how elevation modification modifies 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 local art is housed, where it was created, and the locations that motivated the artist. Each placemark on a students map might include an image of the art work, an image 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 information about the art and artist.

One of my goals for the workshop is to help individuals establish ideas for using Google Earth and Google Maps for more than simply geography and history lessons. To that end Ive put together a brief list of concepts and resources for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps in multiple subject areas.
In Google Earth and on Googles My Maps services your students can produce their own tours highlighting crucial places in a book or essential locations 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 regional art is housed, where it was created, and the places that influenced the artist.