Google Earth, found at Earth.Google.com, is available in two versions. The web version will work in your web browser on a Chromebook, Windows, or Mac laptop. The desktop version has more features. The desktop version is only available on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers
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A Tour of the New Google Earth www.freetech4teachers.com
57 Google Earth & Maps Tutorials for Teachers and Students www.freetech4teachers.comHow to Use Google Earth for Teaching.
Below, is a sample Google Earth lesson plan geared toward elementary and middle school that is focused on teaching geography. It is important to note that while geography is a natural fit for leveraging Google Earth, other content areas and Google Earth tips and tricks for teaching can be used.
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How to Link Within Google Earth Projects One of the relatively new features of the web version of Google Earth is the ability to link to places within your projects (AKA tours). Linking within your Google Earth tours allows you have guide viewers of your tours to specific places without them having to click through every stop of the tour. In other words, it allows them to skip around without having to navigate sequentially. Watch video to see how this works. Applications for Education One favorite way to use Google Earth is to have students develop tours based on a series of events. They add a markers for each event on the places the events happened. Within each marker they write descriptions of the event including its connection to other events. By including links in the place markers students can more accurately connect the series of events in their Google Earth projects. www.freetech4teachers.com
Advanced Google Earth Tutorial, which has even more features.
How to Record a Google Earth Tour in Your Web Browser www.freetech4teachers.com
How to Share Google Earth Views in Google Classroom
How to Overlay Historic Maps onto Google Earth Imagery
Time Lapse in Google EarthWatch how the satellite images of the world have changed over the last 20+ years. Choose a location on the map and Time Lapse will show you how that location has changed via satellite in motion.
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How to Change Map Styles in Google Earth - And Why customize the map style displayed when you are viewing and creating projects in Google Earth. This video demonstrates how to change the map styles that you see in the web version of Google Earth. The video includes customizing the display of borders, labels, landmarks, landmark types, live cloud cover, and more. www.freetech4teachers.com
Record a Tour in Google Earth www.freetech4teachers.com
Video - How to Install Google Earth Pro on a Mac www.freetech4teachers.com
A Tour of the New Google Earth www.freetech4teachers.com
57 Google Earth & Maps Tutorials for Teachers and Students www.freetech4teachers.comHow to Use Google Earth for Teaching.
Below, is a sample Google Earth lesson plan geared toward elementary and middle school that is focused on teaching geography. It is important to note that while geography is a natural fit for leveraging Google Earth, other content areas and Google Earth tips and tricks for teaching can be used.
Click for the complete lesson plan.
For more lesson plans using Google Earth, check out our resources:
- 8 Google Earth Tips and Resources You Don’t Want to Miss
- Google Earth Resources
- Google Earth Board: a Warm-up using Google Earth
How to Link Within Google Earth Projects One of the relatively new features of the web version of Google Earth is the ability to link to places within your projects (AKA tours). Linking within your Google Earth tours allows you have guide viewers of your tours to specific places without them having to click through every stop of the tour. In other words, it allows them to skip around without having to navigate sequentially. Watch video to see how this works. Applications for Education One favorite way to use Google Earth is to have students develop tours based on a series of events. They add a markers for each event on the places the events happened. Within each marker they write descriptions of the event including its connection to other events. By including links in the place markers students can more accurately connect the series of events in their Google Earth projects. www.freetech4teachers.com
- Making & Taking Tours with Google Earth https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2023/03/making-and-taking-virtual-tours-with.html
- Watch this 45-minute recorded webinar and access all the resources and directions.
- You can draw on the map.
- Add your own photos and videos.
- Customize your view.
- Share your story with the world.
- Use the measurement tool.
Advanced Google Earth Tutorial, which has even more features.
How to Record a Google Earth Tour in Your Web Browser www.freetech4teachers.com
How to Share Google Earth Views in Google Classroom
How to Overlay Historic Maps onto Google Earth Imagery
Time Lapse in Google EarthWatch how the satellite images of the world have changed over the last 20+ years. Choose a location on the map and Time Lapse will show you how that location has changed via satellite in motion.
Ten Google Earth and Maps Activities for Math Lessons www.freetech4teachers.com
How to Add Videos to Google Earth Projects www.freetech4teachers.com
How to Change Map Styles in Google Earth - And Why customize the map style displayed when you are viewing and creating projects in Google Earth. This video demonstrates how to change the map styles that you see in the web version of Google Earth. The video includes customizing the display of borders, labels, landmarks, landmark types, live cloud cover, and more. www.freetech4teachers.com
Record a Tour in Google Earth www.freetech4teachers.com
- I'm Feeling Lucky - Around the World With Google Earth the web version of Google Earth has numerous features that can help students learn about the world. One of those neat features is the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button that is found on the left hand toolbar in Google Earth. Clicking that button will take students to a randomly-selected place in the world. On its own the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button provides a good way for students to discover new places. That said, students learn more through the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button if you give them a little more direction than just "click the button and look around." Here is a question sheet to prompt students to do a little research about the places they discover in Google Earth via "I'm Feeling Lucky." My question sheet can be found here as a Google Doc. This short video demonstrates how students can explore Google Earth in more detail after clicking "I'm Feeling Lucky." www.freetech4teachers.com
- Google 3D Timelapse Feature for Observing Planet EarthTimelapse in Google Earth combines more than 24 million satellite photos, two petabytes of data, and 2 million hours of CPU processing time to create an interactive view showing how Earth has changed from 1984 to 2020. Users can choose practically any place on Earth, change camera angles, and select a specific year they want to see. They can access Timelapse in Google Earth simply by going to g.co/Timelapse, or by tapping the Ship’s Wheel icon in Google Earth and selecting “Timelapse.” Google has provided more than 200 spotlights and guided tours for specific locations,
- GE Teach is built around the Google Earth browser plug-in. The purpose of the site is to help teachers develop lessons in which students explore spatial distributions. Visitors to GE Teach can select from a variety of physical geography and human geography layers to display and explore. A fantastic feature of GE Teach is the option use the "two Earths" mode to show two maps side-by-side. The "two Earths" mode could be useful for prompting students to make comparisons and or correlations between two maps. video tutorial
- Three Ways to Collaboratively Create Multimedia Maps With Padlet's new multimedia mapping tool and the recent update to the web version of Google Earth there are more ways than ever for students to collaborate on creating multimedia maps. The three collaborative multimedia mapping tools that I'm going to recommend to most people for the foreseeable future are Google's My Maps, Padlet, and the web version of Google Earth. Tutorials for all three Padlet map. My Maps Google Earth
- Math and Geography Thomas Petra has a Google Earth resource that he developed. The resource is Real World Math. It has many Google Earth files on it that you can download to use as the basis of real world math problems. Real World Math has lesson plans divided into five categories; project-based learning, concept lessons, measurement lessons, exploratory lessons, and space lessons. The space lessons take advantage of the Moon, Mars, and Sky views in Google Earth. www.freetech4teachers.comTom Barrett's Maths Maps is series of activities designed to help elementary school students develop an understanding of distance, scale, and units of measurement. To complete the activities students have to use the measuring tool in Google Maps. This video demonstrates how to measure distances in the web browser version of Google Maps. www.freetech4teachers.com
- Video - How to Measure in 2D and 3D in Google Earth www.freetech4teachers.com
- Create Your Own Maps & Stories On Google Earth is from Google.
- Thematic Mapping Engine provides users with a very simple way to create Google Earth kmz files. Thematic Mapping draws on data provided by the United Nations to create maps depicting all types of development data and environmental science data. Users select a statistical indicator category, select a year or range of years, and the manner in which they would like the data displayed in Google Earth. If you're using a Windows computer you can preview your files before downloading them.
- Google Maps. Here’s a useful tutorial.
- MapTiler MapTiler is graphical application for online map publishing. Your map can create overlay of standard maps like Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, Microsoft VirtualEarth or OpenStreetMap and can be also visualized in 3D form by Google Earth. Only thing you have to do for publishing the map is to upload the automatically generated directory with tiles into your web server
Math Connections
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