A New Add to an Old Fav, Google Earth

It is funny how your after hours web-surfing actually connect to something that happened earlier in the day....

One of my favorite tools, Google Earth was part of the observations I was doing in classrooms today. One class was using the toolGE to measure distances part of developing a "map" of the school neighborhood in a geography unit.

Another teacher was helping students read a chapter by doing a "text walk" and modeling a "think aloud". The topic was the ability to see the landforms of the earth. At that time in the observation a document camera was used to show a picture taken from space. The students read an excerpt from a book by astronaut, Michael Collins, describing the view of the world from space.

Ah...I wish she had Google Earth on each student laptop so that students could manipulate a take different views from outer space...

And now here I am finding that Google Earth now has a "sky" view. Download the latest version of Google Earth and check out what the sky has to view!!! There is a great video by astronaut, Sally Ride, which demonstrates the Sky View.