Teachers from all grade levels and types of institutions are using Google Earth with their students in unique ways. Tell us how you use Google Earth at your school.
The quotes below are from real Google Earth educators:
"We operate a number of Charter Schools in the South Bay and will be opening at least two more in the next three years. Google Earth is extremely useful to us in plotting multiple addresses of prospective students and families and helping to inform our decisions as to optimal sites for new schools." - High School, Director of Site Development "3rd Graders are researching and creating virtual tours of South Africa as part of their social studies curriculum. They are researching cities, weather, airports, travel routes ... points of interest, etc. They are then [using Google Earth to create] .kmz files plotting a virtual trip to South Africa, highlighting the World Cup locations." - Elementary School Administrator "I work in the department of entomology. I use google earth to obtain maps of apple growers orchards. These maps enable me to setup research plots on growers farms." - University Professor “I am an educator at [my University's] Department of Geography and use Google Earth exclusively to educate my students on the different physical processes of the earth, such as volcanoes and earthquakes.” - University Adjunct Professor | - University GIS Associate Professor "I am teaching a class in restoration ecology and we are currently using Google Earth to map past and future landuse of our 710 acre campus as we develop a landscape and restoration plan." - University Assistant Professor "We are using [Google Earth] to study geography, literature and culture in grades 2-8 as both a research tool and a creation tool. The advanced layers, the earth, sky, sea and flight features are being used by many. Now that we've used it, we can't live without it!" - Elementary and Middle School Administrator "Last year, [our] students created artwork inspired by Jay Little’s Message in a Bottle Project. All of the kids’ artwork has been combined and placed in one large bottle. This bottle has a satellite tag in it and is on the Plastiki boat.( http://www.theplastiki.com) David de Rothchild and his crew are carrying the bottle and they will release it sometime during their voyage. Everyday, we receive emails that track our bottle on its journey. We update our community with a map with our bottle’s journey so far with periodic screenshots and .kmz files showing the journey." - Elementary and Middle School Administrator |