Google Earth turns 1,000,000,000

Google Earth has been downloaded more than one billion times. That’s a lot. How big is one billion? They’ve done the math: One billion hours ago modern humans were living in the Stone Age. One billion minutes ago, the Roman Empire was flourishing. If you traveled from Earth to the Moon three times, your journey [...]

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15 Awesome Interactive Virtual Field Trips

When you just can’t scrape together enough cash for the bus and kids won’t bring back their permission slips. In no particular order: Pompeii, Italy. Explore the ruins of this famous Italian city. Colonial Williamsburg. Get a street overview of colonial Williamsburg, then click on certain features to learn more about each of them. Vatican. [...]

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Tip of the Week – Angie’s Awesome Flat Stanley Project

I had the chance yesterday at the MACE conference to attend a session by Angie McCune. Angie teaches 3rd grade in Wamego and is awesome. She shared how she is using Google Earth to do a very cool Flat Stanley activity. What makes it ever more cool is that she has put all of her [...]

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History Tours – More Google Earth goodness

Okay . . . can we all agree that Google Earth is the best thing that ever happened to social studies instruction and learning? Ask yourself, what can’t it do? Geography, history, Street View, embedded video clips, economic patterns, connections to literature, image overlays, built-in web browser, Panoramio, Goggle Earth Gallery, Ancient Rome 3D, Gigapxl [...]

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CIA Factbook + Google Earth = kmlfactbook

I’m sure most of you, especially geography teachers, use the CIA Factbook all the time. It’s such a huge database of info and geo goodies. I’m also sure that may of you have found great ways to incorporate Google Earth in your instruction. But wouldn’t it be cool if you could combine the two? CIA’s [...]

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