After installing Google Earth on my hard-drive I first looked up my own address. We are constantly changing our property because we have horses and their paddocks needed to be moved around to help save grass etc. So...it was cool to look at Google Earth (last pictures taken in 2010) and see how it looked exactly at that time. Here is that picture:
Then I imported my KML Google Map file into Google Earth. When I clicked KML is automatically imported it into Google Earth. Awesome. Here is that image:
Google Earth is way cool. There are thousands of possibilities for the classroom using Google Earth. I was looking at the Second Grade SOL objectives and on their students need to learn about capitals of states and main physical features of the United States. What better way to show your class an actual picture of the features and be able to play around with the views etc to learn about features or where capitals are and why they are placed there. Here is a great link to lots of lesson plans that incorporate those concepts:
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