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Google Earth: Beyond Your Schoolyard!
Lori Roe Instructional Technology Specialist Cape Henlopen School District Lewes, Delaware Lori.Roe@cape.k12.de.us www.twitter.com/lroe

How did it all begin and why? [|Google Earth 101 video]

**Google Earth Goals:**
1. Explore how Google Earth can be used for authentic project based learning in various content areas. 2. Learn the basic features and tools for how these projects are done. 3. Identify resources for other uses and support of Google Earth in Education.

**Google Earth: Overview**
Google Earth is a geographic browser combining satellite imagery and maps as a powerful tool for viewing, creating and sharing interactive files containing highly visual location-specific information. We call these files KMLs (for Keyhole Markup Language): what HTML is to regular Internet browsers, KML is to geographic browsers. You can open KML files in both Google Earth and Google Maps, as well as in many other geographic browsers.



Google Earth is a FREE [|download] Google Earth Plus - $20. (GPS support, spreadsheet import capability, faster performance, higher res printing.) Google Earth Pro - $400. (professional and commercial use)