Later on this week Im performing an online professional advancement workshop about Google Earth and Maps. One of my goals for the workshop is to assist participants develop ideas for using Google Earth and Google Maps for more than just geography and history lessons. To that end Ive assembled a brief list of concepts and resources for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps in several disciplines.
Language ArtsGoogle Lit Trips is most likely 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 students can create their own trips highlighting essential places in a book or important places in the life of an author.
ScienceGoogle Earth provides a fantastic way for trainees to explore intriguing geological landmarks in 3D. Utilizing the timeslider in the desktop variation of Google Earth can show students the changes in a landscape due to disintegration and other natural and man-made forces.
There is no scarcity of lesson plans including Google Earth readily 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 find brief, Google Maps-based activities that need trainees to use and carry out measurements math to answer concerns. The activities represent a terrific combination of mathematics and geography.
You will want to explore Real World Math if you have middle school or high school trainees. On Real World Math you will find lesson strategies that make use of Google Earth for teaching the ideas utilized in determining volume of solids, timezones, and rocketry..
Physical EducationPerhaps my preferred usage of Googles My Maps is for planning safe walking, treking, and biking paths. You can also utilize Google Earth to help students comprehend how elevation change modifies the speed at which paths are finished.
ArtBy utilizing Googles My Maps tools or the desktop version of Google Earth, trainees can map the locations of where a piece of regional art is housed, where it was created, and the locations that inspired the artist. Each placemark on a trainees map could include an image of the artwork, an image of the artist, and or a video about the art and artist. To offer a complete picture a trainee can consist of text and links to more info about the art and artist.

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

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