Google Earth has much to explore!! It's a little creepy seeing my house on Google Earth....I could imagine some wackos out there could really use Google Earth for some bad stuff. At any rate.... I never really knew about the layers thing. That was pretty cool - there was a layer called Global Awareness which looked interesting (although I didn't look into it too much).
The lesson plan for Elementary Age kids gave some great ideas on how to use Google Earth in the classroom. I especially liked the weather layer idea - to track rainfall totals and then discuss how rainfall helps our crops, animals, and so on. You could really get into a lot of detail and different aspects of geography and probably some global awareness issues.
Googleearthgoods was also a neat site to check out. Looks like TONS of ideas to use in the classroom! Ways to use Google Earth in math, science....well, just about everything.
I think everyone is waiting on me....and I'm feeling a little drowsy, so bye-bye Google Earth! :)
Good job! :-)
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