Google+Earth+Links





[] Download Google Earth


 * Searching for KMZ & KML files **

[|http://gelessons.com/] A GE community for teachers, by teachers. Search and upload tricks, hints, ideas, uses, and kmz files for your class.

http://www.gearthblog.com/ Excellent resource for help, kmz files, discussions, etc. Includes monthly archives going back to August 2005. A forum with many Google Earth KMZ & KML files linked to discussion groups about them.

[|http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php/Cat/0/C/45] This is an incredible site. If you can't find it here, it probably won't be found.

http://www.googlelittrips.com/ Google Lit Trips

http://historytours.wikispaces.com/ Google History Tours – Two Pennsylvania CFF coaches started a wiki to promote the use of Google Earth in Social Studies classrooms [] Great site to see and download lessons in Google Earth for math

http://www.gearthhacks.com/ Great search for KMZ & KML files but has some questionable content. (Might not be appropriate for students)

http://www.gearthhacks.com/collections.php A teachers site with many links and ideas

http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/dherring/ge/googleearth.htm#hi Some Lessons plans using Google earth

http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/exploreyourearth/ Has some good KMZ & KML files

http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/

Online Google Moon http://www.google.com/moon/

http://www.googletouring.com/create.php Travel the world, virtually.

http://www.kmzlinks.com/ More kmz files to be searched.

http://greatwalltrek.info/ - Blog, Video, Photos and KML files follow a man hiking the Greatwall for 9 months.

http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/UEowjsXRBffS A "Jog the Web" to help you learn how to use Google Earth (Thanks to Jason Heiser)
 * Learn How-To **

http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/GeogP/gearthplan/

http://googleearthdesign.blogspot.com/

http://www.teachinghacks.com/wiki/index.php?title=Google_Earth_101_for_Educators

http://www.geographypages.co.uk/googleearth.htm

http://earth.google.com/outreach/index.html Apply for a grant to receive a free GE Pro copy

http://groups.google.com/group/earth-help More GE help, including discussion threads.

http://www.gelessons.com/lessons/tricks/enhancedplacemarks/index.html -  Video on adding HTML to Place Marks

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/07/weather_and_sto.html Weather tools
 * Links to specific subject area KMZ & KML files below **

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/04/global_cloud_ma.html Cloud map overlay

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2005/09/storm_tracking.html Live hurricane mapping

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1118697/an/0/page/0#1118697 Tsunami lesson Dec. 26, 2004



http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2005/11/lewis_and_clark.html Lewis and Clark trip

http://www.activehistory.co.uk/Miscellaneous/free_stuff/google_earth/drake/index.htm Drake's trip

http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/diamonds.htm Lesson idea on the Diamond Trade

http://historytours.wikispaces.com/ History trips

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/07/live_tracking_o.html live tracking of Tour de France

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/04/follow_the_olympic_torch_relay_in_g_1.html Follow the Olympic Torch

http://www.googlelittrips.org/ Literature- Check out __The Grapes of Wrath__, __The Kiterunner__, or __The Odyssey__

http://web.mac.com/jburg/iWeb/Scout/TKAM.html A fictionalized sequel to __To Kill A Mockingbird__ done by students in CA (not in GE)

http://realworldmath.org/Real_World_Math/RealWorldMath.org.html - Collection of math lessons in Google Earth

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/754264/an/0/page/3 Geometry lesson

[|Exchange Rate Problems_1.kmz] - [|Foreign Exchange Worksheet-1.doc] Exchange Rate

[|231542-MathsinMadrid.kmz] Math in Madrid

http://gelessons.com/lessons/studentcontrol/k12math/xtremetriangles/main.html X-TREME Geometry - Intense Right Triangles