Tutorials & Tips
Basic Tutorials and Tips

• Whether you need to begin, build, or polish your Google Earth skills, we have the resources that you need.
• If you’ve only got a moment to get started, check out  Five cool, easy things you can do in Google Earth.
• (For Teachers and Students) To get the basics down, we suggest Google Earth learn: It will equip you with the basics of Google Earth through an interactive learning game.
• To learn about the most popular Google Earth features take a Feature tour. To learn more about features, we suggest the Google Earth User Guide.
• If you’re a visual learner, try our Outreach tutorials or the Google Earth YouTube channel.
• We have even more tutorials without video content, don't miss them!

Using Google Earth in Dynamic Curriculum

If you haven't already checked out our suggestions for how to bring the world to your students through Google Earth, check out Google Earth Features For My Class.

We know that you’re already working hard, so we’ve organized some of Google Earth’s most popular features into themes as suggestions as to which features to tackle and learn first. 

If you're just getting started you should ensure that you first know how to:

• Search
• Navigate
• Use Layers
• Create Placemarks

Once you've mastered these basics, you may wish to tackle Google Earth through one of the following themed areas of interest:

• Hiking/Biking (GPS Import,  Animating Track Tours, Elevation Profile)

• Architecture (Google Earth Gallery, 3D Warehouse,  Building Maker, Google SketchUp, Overlay Site Plans and Traffic Counts*)

• Planning (View/Geotag Photos, Touring, Exporting an Image, User have suggested this site for Georeferencing a Site Plan)

• Real Estate (Photos, Touring, Exporting Images, Demographics*, Parcel Data*, Traffic Counts*)

• Broadcast/Media (Touring, Exporting Images, Local Business Information,  Road, 3D Buildings, and other Data Layers)

• Construction (Georeferencing a site plan, Building Maker, Measuring Tools, Traffic Counts*

• Mathematics (There are too many to list individually checkout this content created by Google Earth Users: Area and Perimeter , and Real World Math)

• Marine/Oceanography (Access the Ocean Layer, Ocean 3D Models, Ocean Tours)

• Engineering (Exporting an Image, StreetView, Touring and Saving Directions, GIS Data Import*)

• Astronomy (Google Sky, Google Mars, Google Moon, EarthSky Podcasts)

• Transit (Transit Trip Planning, Measuring Tools,  Road and other Data Layers, Traffic Counts*)

*Google Earth Pro Only   

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