Learning the Basics

• Google Earth for Educators from Google
• Google Earth 101 for Educators
• Google Earth Community for Educators

  An online forum to ask questions, find answers, and identify best practices.

• Lessons and Resources post from the Community
• Here is the main Google Earth Community

  You can search here for lots of KML and KMZ files.

• Classroom Google Earth Wiki

  "Somewhere that allows students, teachers and other colleagues to share classroom based resources and ideas."

• Google Earth User Guide
• Using Google Earth and eMaps online class

  I haven't looked at each of the lessons, but it looks pretty good.

What to Do

• Using measuring tools
  • Ruler
  • Paths
• Placemarks
  • Adding text
  • Adding images 

• Create a tour
• Here's another tutorial for creating a tour.

Activity Resources

• Google Earth Blog has tons of info on a daily basis...check here often!
  • World Oil Consumption
  • NASA Earth Data
  • National Geographic Elephant Poaching
  • Weather Satelllite Animation
  • Discovery Sunrise
  • Extremes of the Earth
  • Track Cruise Ships
  • NOAA Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) Weather Feed
  • Shaded Relief Map of US Terrain
  • Top 10 Time Animations from 2006
  • NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab Data
  • The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
• Google Earth Scavenger Hunts
  • Scavenger Hunt (pdf)
  • Mrs. Differding’s Google Earth Scavenger Hunt
  • This one's screen shot is old, but the hunt still works.
• Google Earth Lessons
• View Melting Glaciers
• See the World
  • Google Sightseeing
  • GoogleTouring
• A Google Earth for All Subjects
• Tour U.S. National Parks
• Juicy Geography's Google Earth Blog
• EarthfromAbove.pdf is an article describing Google Earth and a specific lesson idea.

USGS Resources

• Earthquakes from the past week
• More Google Earth files about earthquakes
• KML Examples

  (Remember that .kml and .kmz files are Google Earth's default file formats.

• Integrated Remote Sensing

  That might not mean anything to you, but check it out anyway!

• Suwannee River Basin and Estuary Initiative
• Earth Science resources...scroll down the page a bit

Just Plain Cool

• Track incoming flight traffic around the country
• Find what your looking for by Searching for KML files in Google Earth.
• Play the Mars Sucks game.