Later on this week Im conducting an online expert development workshop about Google Earth and Maps. One of my objectives for the workshop is to help participants develop ideas for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps for more than simply geography and history lessons. To that end Ive created a list of concepts and resources for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps in several 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 trips based upon books and authors. In Google Earth and on Googles My Maps services your students can develop their own trips highlighting crucial locations in a book or crucial places in the life of an author.
ScienceGoogle Earth provides a great way for trainees to explore interesting geological landmarks in 3D. Utilizing the timeslider in the desktop variation of Google Earth can show students the modifications in a landscape due to disintegration and other natural and manufactured forces.
There is no shortage of lesson plans featuring Google Earth offered 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 class there is probably no better place to start than on Tom Barretts Maths Maps website. There you will discover short, Google Maps-based activities that require trainees to utilize and perform measurements arithmetic to respond to concerns. The activities represent a great combination 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 find lesson strategies that utilize 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 planning safe walking, hiking, and cycling routes. You can likewise utilize Google Earth to assist students comprehend how elevation modification modifies the speed at which paths are completed.
ArtBy using 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 locations that motivated the artist. Each placemark on a students map could consist of an image of the artwork, a photo of the artist, and or a video about the art and artist. To provide a total image 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 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 utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps in several subject locations.
In Google Earth and on Googles My Maps services your trainees can produce their own trips highlighting important locations in a book or important locations in the life of an author.
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 developed, and the locations that inspired the artist.

For some inspiration on this subject take an appearance at Monet Was Here on Google Arts & & Culture.