A navigable 3D globe with satellite imagery, Street View, historical imagery and a project tool for adding placemarks, text and images.
Creative Amplify
Fifteen pairs each survey one habitat zone across a week, then add a placemark to a shared Google Earth project with photos of what they found and their own notes.
After a class visit to one regeneration site, each student builds a Google Earth project that pairs historical imagery with their own photos and data at five waypoints.
The Industrial Revolution: Google Earth project of six stops on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Groups of three build a six-stop Google Earth project along the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, writing at each placemark what stood in Stephenson's way and how it was overcome, then test it on another group.
Creative Transform
Students measure the cliff edge at Happisburgh on dated satellite images in Google Earth, pool their readings in a class sheet to calculate rates of retreat, and build a mapped judgement on the shoreline policy.
Interactive Amplify
Grade 8 drop into Street View at three saved places in Mumbai, look around and move along the streets, and record evidence for a written comparison.
Interactive Replace
Students fly to eight teacher-chosen coordinates in Google Earth, identify the biome at each from what the imagery shows, and record two pieces of visual evidence in a table.
Interactive Transform
Pairs trace the boating lake in the local park with Google Earth's measure tool, first with 6 clicks, then 15, then 40, and track how the perimeter keeps growing while the area settles.
Pairs walk assigned shopping streets in Montreal and Paris on Google Earth Street View, logging every shop sign into a shared sheet to test whether French speakers really borrow English words everywhere.
Passive Amplify
The teacher takes the class round the ancient theatre at Epidaurus through 360-degree views in Google Earth, from the circular orchestra to the top rows of seats, before groups stage a chorus in the studio.
The teacher flies Google Earth along the archduke's route through Sarajevo, drops into Street View at the Latin Bridge corner and zooms out to the capitals of Europe while Grade 8 annotate their own maps.
Passive Transform
The teacher plays nearly four decades of Google Earth Timelapse imagery of Alaska's Columbia Glacier, and Grade 6 turn what they watched into the evidence paragraph of a persuasive speech.
The teacher plays Google Earth's Timelapse of Rondônia on the board so Grade 7 watch the forest being cleared year by year since the 1980s.
The teacher plays nearly four decades of Timelapse imagery of the Ucayali River in Google Earth, and students watch meander loops creep sideways, pinch together and leave ox-bow lakes behind.
The teacher plays Google Earth's Timelapse over central Berlin from 1984, and students watch the empty ground where the border cut through Potsdamer Platz persist, then fill with building sites and new blocks through the 1990s.
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