Google Earth

What you learned about Google Earth and how you learned it:
On Google Earth I looked at my house in Freeport, and I looked at my residence hall in Farmington. I though it was really cool using streetview to navigate around campus. When I looked at the Effiel Tower in Paris France, I thought it was so cool that the Effiel Tower was 3D out of the map. I went down to streetview and explored around the base of the Effiel tower, I never knew that there was a ticket line to view it, and that there are vendors all around it. I saw that graduation was happening in the computer center parking lot, and it was also really blurry when I went pack in time to look at the education center, so I don't know what it used to be before the Ed. Center. I mostly learned all of these things by trying it out and playing around with the program.

How you might use Google Earth in your class:

I know I am not being creative, but I really liked the video's idea of using Google Earth to teach biomes of different ecosystems around the world. I could have them look at things like a desert, a tropical forest, a wetland, a savannah, a tundra, and a temperate forests, and compare and contrast the differences in their appearances and try to predict what kind of species live there.I could also have students use google earth to track migration habits of mammals like whales, reptiles like sea turtles,birds such as robins, and insects such as monarch butterflies.