Google
Where on Google Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? The Crown Jewels Caper
Test your knowledge of geography as you travel around the world with Carmen Sandiego to famous landmarks and interview "witnesses" to recover the stolen loot.
Google
Google Earth Explore, Search and Discover
Find a specific location in the world. View exotic locations, famous buildings, and even your own home! See the terrain and buildings in 3D. Search for restaurants, hotels, parks and schools within a certain area.
Google
Google Earth Explore, Search and Discover
Find a specific location in the world. View exotic locations, famous buildings, your own home! See the terrain and buildings in 3D. Search for restaurants, hotels, parks and schools within a certain area.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Run Around the World
Lesson where students utilize Google Maps and Google Earth to create a three mile running course from their houses, addressing any safety concerns that arise (large intersections, availability of sidewalks, etc.). Detailed instructions...
Google
Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Create Your Own Google Logo
A set of three activities where students learn how to use the programming language Scratch to create Google logos, including ones for Valentine's Day and one for Earth Day.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Lab 4: A Bird's Eye View: Exploring Your Region
An investigation that is part of a series of lab lessons that expose students to Earth Systems through research, data, and visualizations. In this lab, students will investigate their region by using Google Earth and predicting what...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Projections and Coordinates: Turning a 3 D Earth Into Flatlands
Projections and coordinates are key advancements in the geographic sciences that allow us to better understand the nature of the Earth and how to describe location. These innovations in describing the Earth are the basis for everything...
Google
Google Earth: Appalachian Voices
This site contains information about a nonprofit organization that is protecting the resources of the central and southern Appalachian region.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Tech Tours Using Google Earth
Grab your passport and head around the world as K-2 students become reporters using Google Earth and podcasting to learn and share about maps, globes, people and places around the community, state and world. Tools featured include:...
Google
Google for Education: Applying Discrete and Continuous Data in a Map
Using various tools, student will be able to analyze and calculate the amount of urban open space available in their city.
Curated OER
Google for Education: Children and Technology: Google Sketch Up
Using Google SketchUp build a house or upgrade your school building to be the tallest and the most colorful in the world! Then place your buildings on Google Earth and fly over them with Google Earth to see what they look like.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: World Wonders
Use Google tools to explore hundreds of world sites. You can wander around the sites, almost as though you are really there, and learn about the history, architecture, and culture that make each site so significant. Some of the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What's Wrong With the Coordinates at the North Pole?
Students complete a self-guided exercise in worksheet format combined with Google Earth that helps them explore practical and observable differences between different projection and coordinate systems. The activity improves their skills...
Other
Satellite Images Bridge Understanding Gap Between Climate Change and Individuals
This article discusses how Google Earth has brought the reality of climate change to the average person so that they can see it for themselves. The north and south poles are indicators of what is happening with climate change and an...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Searching for Bigfoot and Others Like Him
Cryptids, creatures of questionable existence, are used as a source of data to guide students into the creation of their own GIS data layer in Google Earth. The activity serves the purpose of a tutorial to teach students how to make data...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Where Are the Plastics Near Me? (Mapping the Data)
In a student-led and fairly independent fashion, data collected in the associated field trip activity are organized by student groups to create useful and informative Google Earth maps. Each team creates a map, uses that map to analyze...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Digital Mapping and Geographic Information Systems (Gis)
Geographic information systems (GIS), once used predominantly by experts in cartography and computer programming, have become pervasive in everyday business and consumer use. This unit explores GIS in general as a technology about which...
Curated OER
Space Shuttle Atlantis Sts 122 Launch Profile in Google Earth
The author has extensive experience using GPS and has worked with NASA. In his blog he posts information about the latest uses and applications of Google Earth.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Exploring Monsoon Precipitation and Streamflow in a Semi Arid Watershed
Students use both My World GISTM and Google Earth maps to investigate streamflow and precipitation relationships in the vicinity of Tucson, AZ.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Exploring Air Quality in Aura No2 Data
This activity illustrates how data can be imported into Google Earth for visualization and interpretation. Learners are introduced to air quality as it relates to population density and topography.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Lab 2: What's a Watershed?
Students build a physical model to simulate watershed features, then use Google Earth software to tie the model to a real place. By exploring several layers of map-based images and data, students learn the complexity of a watershed and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Environmental Reconnaissance of a Salt Marsh
A field and computer laboratory exercise that introduces students to using Google Earth, GPS, aerial imagery, and an online illustrated vegetation and tidal marsh environment identification guide. Students are challenged to distinguish...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Where Are the Plastics Near Me? (Field Trip)
An adult-led field trip allows students to be organized into investigation teams that catalogue the incidence of plastic debris in different environments. These plastics are being investigated according to their type, age, location and...
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