1. Integrating Google Earth Into Your Curriculum Beth Heim, ITRT Potomac View Elementary [email_address] 703.496.1126 ext. 333

2. Beginning with Google Earth

3. Search Places and View Layers

4. Toolbar (versions prior to 5.0) Add Polygon Sky View Ruler Image Overlay Print Hide Sidebar Add Placemark Add Path Show sunlight across the landscape Email View in Google Maps

5. Social Studies

6. A Closer Look… Kelly Leadership Center

7. A Closer Look… Washington D.C.

8. How far did the soldiers travel on D-Day?

9. Use photos from Google Images or United Streaming to compare today to yesterday.

11. A Closer Look… View photographs taken by visitors and get Wikipedia info

12. Japan: before, after, and today

13. Ground Zero- Nagasaki

28. ELA Literature Trips

29. Literature Trips- By the Great Horned Spoon Full of coots, codgers, geezers, and outlaws, this is the rip-snortin’-- and suspenseful-- saga of a young man and his butler bound for California from Boston during the great Gold Rush. Annotation Jack and the butler stow away on a side-wheeler bound for California where they join the Gold Rush of 1849

30. Use Paths and Placemarks to mark chapters or events

32. Math Use the measurement tool to measure distance or compare measures.

33. Measuring Distance Ruler (measurement tool)

34. Converting Measures and Drawing Paths Use the path tool to draw a path to measure distances that may not be in a straight line. Convert the measurement for the unit of instruction.

35. Science Study astronomy using the sky view or study oceanic features looking at the sea.

36. Astronomy Switch to sky view. Click it again to return to Earth view.

37. View Ocean Features **View from GE 5.0

38. Art Look at Architecture

39. Study the architecture of buildings using the 3-D feature

40. Roman Coliseum

41. Music Look at locations of composers and compositions.

42. Haydn, Rohrau (Austria) Mozart, Germany Brahms, Germany

43. How can you use Google Earth in your classroom today?