For your students with Google accounts (and yourself), you can sign in and save "placemarks"- which can be a good way for you to plan an activity. I needed to do a little searching to discover that to tilt the view, you hold the shift key while clicking and dragging on your trackpad.Ī view of one of my favorite places, Acadia National ParkĬompared to using flat maps or Google Maps, Earth gives you a more "experiential" view of any place, with 3D buildings and geographic structures, as well as flying effects. Hit the ? key (you can do this across all Google tools) to see the keystrokes for navigating. There you will have an interactive globe at your fingertips, to search or navigate via your mouse. On Chrome on a laptop or chromebook, all you need to do is navigate to Google Earth at. I've written about Google Earth a lot, and you may get some lesson ideas here and here and here, knowing that all of those suggestions will be easier in the Chrome version. I refer to this for laptops and chromebook users, though the iPad version of Google Earth offers you a lot too. So now you can use a vastly simplified (for the better) version of Google Earth right in your web browser. Recently, Google ported its excellent, but logistically complicated Google Earth program into its web browser, Google Chrome. Some weeks back I discussed Google My Maps as a tool integrated with Google Apps (used by many districts) that can be used to target spatial concepts, description, and narrative while working with curriculum contexts.
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