Classroom+Ideas

Here are a few ways to get started. Please consider contributing to this page when you find activities and ideas that will enhance student learning.

Instructional Ideas

 * Elementary**. Have students explore verified locations where meteors have hit the Earth ([|http://www.gearthblog.com/kmfiles/impacts.kmz)], then create a chart of the number of craters per continent.
 * Middle School**. Have students explore the 19 annotated placemarks mentioned in Jules Verne’s “Around the World in 80 Days” ([|http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download. php?Number=156427]).Then have them annotate 19 different places they would stop if they were traveling around the world.
 * High School**. Have students pretend they are with Sir Ernest Shackelton during his adventure in Antarctica. Explore the virtual tour in Google Earth ([|http://bbs.keyhole. com/ubb/download.php?Number=151193] ) and have students write diary entries to personalize the experience. mapping, the iterative design process, and user feedback.

Other ideas

 * [|Basic Geography Skills]
 * [|Diamond Mining](note this would be a controversial and very indepth use)
 * [|Google Earth Lessons]
 * [|Google Earth and United Streaming]
 * [|Google Earth 101 for Educators]
 * Math...Measurement, Area

Activity #1

 * Choose 2 or 3 ideas to use with students this fall