Google earth

Google Earth

Let’s you fly anywhere in the world zoom in and take a closer look. By entering in the address I was able take a closer look at a family beach shack via the satelite image from google earth. I then used flickr to crop the picture. The clarity of the picture is very good and I could pin point exactly the location I wanted.
Google earth can be used by students and teachers to explore a wide variety of subjects in a real-world, real time context. It is a resourceful tool for taking students on a visual tour of the world and can be used in for almost any subject. 

Educational Benefits: 

•  visualization and educational tool for almost any subject
•  kinesthetic - Students can be actively involved and make choices.  
•  engaging way to take students to places around the worldhelps students conceptualize, visualize, share, and communicate information about the world around them.

Classroom uses:

• can be used in presenting and sharing work
• current affair issues in the daily newspaper can be explored as they happen
• map studies, investigate case studies of renewable energies, climate change and energy consumption.

Challenges:

• could be slow to download

The site below has examples of lessons using google earth.
 http://sitescontent.google.com/google-earth-for-educators/Home/google-earth-lesson-plans

References

Google Earth Lesson Plans, Retrieved 23rd August, 2010

http://sitescontent.google.com/google-earth-for-educators/Home/google-earth-lesson-plans