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=**GOOGLE EARTH**=



Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.

**Downloads**

 * Download the Software Here :** [|**http://earth.google.com/**]

The Google Earth API Plugin-in allows you to embed and view google earth directly in a web page. You do not require the software to be installed to view the a google earth tour or use the software.


 * Download the Google EARTH Plug-in Here --** [|**http://code.google.com/apis/earth/**]
 * Google Earth API Examples :** [|**http://code.google.com/apis/earth/documentation/examples.html**]

__What can you do with Google Earth?__
1. Fly to any place 2. See the world in 3D 3. Explore the Oceans 4. Explore Mars 5. Explore the Sky 6. See 3D Buildings and Terrain 7. Create Placemarks to Save 8. Record a tour with narration. Share it. 9. Add hyperlinks, images and Voice to placemarks and record 10. Street Level Views 11. View Historical Imagery. 12. View Pre-Made tours.

**__Resources and Training:__**

 * Designing and Creating Earth Science Lessons in Google Earth


 * Search the Google Earth Gallery for Pre-Made Tours - []
 * The Google Earth user guide - []
 * You can [|view a printable version of this user guide] (free [|Adobe Reader] required, English only).
 * 199 Image Overlays- []
 * Search for Google Earth resources for a history classroom - []

Additional Support
In addition to this user guide, Google offers a number of resources that can help you use and enjoy Google Earth. These include:
 * [|Tutorials]: These provide hands-on lessons using Google Earth.
 * [|FAQs]: View a list of answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) about Google Earth.
 * [|Google Earth Help Center]: Use the Help Center at any time to find additional information.
 * [|Google Earth Help Groups]: Join Google Earth users as they share questions and information with one another.
 * [|Google Earth Community]: Learn from other Google Earth users by asking questions and sharing answers on the Google Earth Community forums.
 * [|Using Google Earth]: This blog describes how you can use some of the interesting features of Google Earth.
 * [|Top 10 Amazing google earth Add-ons] from PC Magazine

**__Lessons and Implementation Ideas__**

 * [|Google Earth Lessons] - This site is full of lesson ideas and tutorials. It includes student controlled, teacher controlled and lesson starters.
 * [|Google Lit Trips] - Jerome Burg’s award-winning site provides Google maps of well-known literature to deepen students’ understanding of setting and background. Teachers are encouraged to submit their own literary maps and lesson ideas.
 * [|Juicy Geography: Google Earth Lessons] - This site created by educator Noel Jenkins contains nine ready-to-use lessons on topics such as Stonehenge, safe cities, and wind farms.
 * [|Juicy Geography’s Google Earth blog] includes teaching guides, downloadable files and other resources for teaching Google Earth.
 * 23 Interesting Ways to use Google Earth in your classroom - []
 * Two Lesson Plans - []


 * Here are some other ideas for using Google Earth in your classroom: Source: []**


 * **Biology**: Track routes of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe Forest. See the [|Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee blog here].
 * **Ecology**: Create a short quiz like [|this one].
 * **Environmental Science**: Have students check Alaska's global warming problems. See how the Sierra Club used Google Earth to depict this problem [|here].
 * **Geology**: Find images, links, and descriptions, with information about thousands of volcanoes around the globe, thanks to organizations like the [|Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program.]
 * **Global Awareness**: Study the [|Crisis in Darfur] with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's unprecedented project.
 * **History**: Explore [|Tutankhamun's Tomb.]
 * **Humanities**: Have your students scout film shoot locations like [|this] teacher did with //The Golden Compass//.
 * **Literature**: Bring class or contemporary tales to life with [|Google LitTrips].
 * **Math**: Explore distance, velocity, and wave properties of [|tsunamis].
 * [|GE Manual for Earth Science Teachers] (~1 MB pdf) Manual for Earth Science teachers.
 * [] - Various pre-made tours.

**__KML / KMZ FILES - Pre-Made Tours__**

 * [] - Bottom of the page has some pre-made KMZ files.
 * How to search Google for a KMZ or KML File: Using Google Search simply type in the following string to search for a KML for Vancouver… [|filetype:kmz vancouver]
 * [|**Sir Ernest Shackleton Google Earth “documentary”**] ([|**blog post**] from Google Earth blog) - 1.9 MB
 * [|**Volcanoes of the World**]
 * [|**Documented meteor impacts worldwide**] (>26,000)
 * [|**World Wide Panorama**]
 * [|**Discovery Channel World Video tours**] (unfortunately ads are included)
 * [] - Lots of KML files available and resources.
 * The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (better known as NOAA) has been producing a number of useful KML files which can be viewed in Google Earth. Today I'm highlighting a [|collection of updated drought maps] which can be viewed with the time animation feature in Google Earth. NOAA has several collections at this web page which cover the year 2000 through to the present. The maps highlight the regions of drought conditions with colored contours which indicate the severity of drought (Dark red is the most severe). I recommend only loading a single year at a time unless you have a lot of memory. (The one covering the full ten year range is recommended to only be used with GE Pro because it only seems to work with Pro.)

Science

 * I stumbled upon a [|cool site] [[image:http://www.gearthblog.com/images/gelogoicon.gif]] that tells you some basic facts about known exoplanets. But, rather than a boring web page, it pretends you are on the bridge of a Star Trek ship using the computer. The underlying planet view comes from a Google Earth plugin using the Sky mode. Yet another fun example of using the [|GE API and plugin] in innovative ways with an educational twist.
 * Tour and podcast of the grand canyon -

Social Studies
Lewis and Clark Expedition Tour - []