What is Google Earth?
According to googleearth.com, Google Earth is a free virtual globe program that shows the earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS over a 3D globe. Anyone, anywhere can use this tool to view all over the world, students can zoom in, zoom out, spin and travel the world in one lesson! This tool would be great to use in the classroom to explore other countries and the differences between us and them, measure distance, graphing their town or school, mapping and take virtual tours of the world. Google Earth is an amazing tool tht can be used for many different subjects such as SOSE, Science, Maths, English, Geography and History. Google Earth is a great teaching tool to aide and add interest to any lesson or topic!
Images Courtesy of Google Earth
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