Later on today Im carrying out an online professional development workshop about Google Earth and Maps. Among my goals for the workshop is to help participants establish concepts for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps for more than simply location and history lessons. To that end Ive assembled a short list of ideas and resources for using Google Earth and Google Maps in multiple subject locations.
Language ArtsGoogle Lit Trips is probably the most popular example of utilizing 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 create their own tours highlighting crucial places in a book or important locations in the life of an author.
ScienceGoogle Earth provides an excellent way for students to check out fascinating geological landmarks in 3D. Utilizing the timeslider in the desktop version of Google Earth can show students the modifications in a landscape due to erosion and other natural and man-made forces.
There is no scarcity of lesson plans including Google Earth offered online. A couple that I advise taking a look at are Rich Treves flooding and volcano lessons and Whats a Watershed created at the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College.
MathFor K-5 classrooms there is probably no better place to start than on Tom Barretts Maths Maps website. There you will discover brief, Google Maps-based activities that need trainees to utilize and perform measurements arithmetic to answer questions. The activities represent a great mix of mathematics and location.
You will want to explore Real World Math if you have middle school or high school trainees. On Real World Math you will discover lesson strategies that use Google Earth for teaching the principles used in determining volume of solids, timezones, and rocketry..
Physical EducationPerhaps my preferred usage of Googles My Maps is for planning safe walking, hiking, and biking paths. You can also utilize Google Earth to help trainees comprehend how elevation modification alters the speed at which routes are completed.
ArtBy utilizing Googles My Maps tools or the desktop version of Google Earth, trainees can map the places of where a piece of regional art is housed, where it was produced, and the places that motivated the artist. Each placemark on a trainees map might consist of an image of the artwork, a photo of the artist, and or a video about the art and artist. To supply a complete image a trainee can consist of text and links to more details about the art and artist.

One of my goals for the workshop is to help individuals develop concepts for utilizing Google Earth and Google Maps for more than just geography and history lessons. To that end Ive put together a short list of ideas 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 produce their own tours highlighting crucial locations in a book or essential places in the life of an author.
ArtBy using 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 created, and the locations that influenced the artist.

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