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

Later on today Im conducting an online professional development workshop about Google Earth and Maps. Among my goals for the workshop is to assist participants establish ideas for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps for more than just location and history lessons. To that end Ive created a short list of concepts and resources for using Google Earth and Google Maps in numerous 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 upon authors and books. In Google Earth and on Googles My Maps services your trainees can develop their own trips highlighting essential places in a book or crucial places in the life of an author.
ScienceGoogle Earth provides a great way for trainees to explore intriguing geological landmarks in 3D. Utilizing the timeslider in the desktop version of Google Earth can reveal trainees the modifications in a landscape due to disintegration and other natural and man-made forces.
There is no lack of lesson plans including Google Earth available online. A couple that I advise taking a look at are Rich Treves flooding and volcano lessons and Whats a Watershed produced at the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College.
MathFor K-5 class there is most likely no much better place to begin than on Tom Barretts Maths Maps website. There you will discover brief, Google Maps-based activities that need students to perform measurements and use arithmetic to respond to concerns. The activities represent a fantastic mix of mathematics and geography.
You will desire to check out Real World Math if you have middle school or high school students. On Real World Math you will discover lesson strategies that make use of Google Earth for teaching the ideas utilized in computing volume of solids, timezones, and rocketry..
Physical EducationPerhaps my favorite usage of Googles My Maps is for planning safe walking, treking, and cycling paths. You can also utilize Google Earth to help students comprehend how elevation modification alters the speed at which routes are completed.
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 produced, and the places that motivated the artist. Each placemark on a students map might consist of an image of the art work, a photo of the artist, and or a video about the art and artist. To offer a complete image a trainee can include text and links to more info about the art and artist.

One of my goals for the workshop is to help individuals 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 ideas and resources for using Google Earth and Google Maps in numerous subject locations.
In Google Earth and on Googles My Maps services your trainees can create their own trips highlighting essential locations in a book or crucial places in the life of an author.
ArtBy utilizing Googles My Maps tools or the desktop version of Google Earth, trainees can map the places of where a piece of local art is housed, where it was developed, and the places that influenced the artist.