Resources

**Getting Started**
[|Download Google Earth]- Cross platform and FREE!! Make sure you download your version. [|User's Guide] - Created by Google Earth. Best read online for the use of the hot links [|Product Tour] - by Google, brief overview of what you can do [|Tutorials] - This set of tutorials can help you understand how to use the fun, powerful features of Google Earth. Each tutorial provides a hands-on lesson using the application.

**Integration**
[|Google Earth Classroom Activities] [|Google Earth 101 for Educators] [|Google Earth Lesson Links] [|Google Earth Community for Educators] - Bulletin boards for educators using Google Earth [|Google Earth Lessons] - Another resource for lessons with tutorials for use and ideas for student controlled and teacher controlled lessons [|Google Earth and other Google Earth Tools] [|Google Earth and Media] - downloads from Hall Davidson Cartography http://jakes.editme.com/cartography

**Literature**
[|Google Lit Trips] A different way to read great literature! Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place! Castek, Jill and Mangelson, Jessica, [|Thinking Outside the Book: Reading the World with Google Earth], American Library Association, May 2008 (Vol.17 no.5) online http://www.ala.org/ala/booklinksbucket/googleearth.cfm

**Google Earth in the Foreign Language Classroom**
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**Maps**
[|Maplecroft Maps] - designed specifically for Google Earth

**Extras**
[|The Sightseer-] Google Earth's Monthly Newsletter [|Google Earth Blog]- Amazing things about Google Earth [|Google Sightseeing]- Fun finds on Google Earth [|Circle Generator]- put in the coordinates and the size and it creates a circle path on Google Earth [|Panoramio for Google Earth] - add this layer to your Google Earth to see photos from people around the world [|Degree Confluence Project] - The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures, and stories about the visits, will then be posted here. [|TerraClues]- online global scavenger hunt