Maps and Geography

Google Earth is a free download from Google that lets you zoom in on locations all over the earth and see a satellite view of the area.

• Scholastic.com has lesson plans on climate change that integrate Language Arts, Geography, and Science with Google Earth.
• Check out Google Lit Trips for great ideas on integrating literature with Google Earth. It has examples for middle and high school literature.
• One middle school integrated their study of Civil Rights with Google Earth.
• Google Moon and Google Mars are great with your astronomy study.
• Juicy Geography is a collection of lesson ideas for teachers.
• Google Maps Mania is a blog of lots of ways people are using Google Earth.
• View the Sunrise around the world from Discovery and Google Earth!
• Check out this article from Edutopia.

MyMaps from Google is an online mapping application that lets you add text and points to a map and then save it both online and as a Google Earth file.

• Here is a pretty cool MyMap on Places from the Bible
• and one of all the Major League Ball Parks.
• You can create travel guides with photos! Here is one for Hawaii.

NASA also has a free satellite image software called World Wind. It has several options for viewing different satellite images including real time cloud cover and also topo maps. Here is a wiki on World Wind with lots of good links and info.

Virtual Earth from Microsoft is also a great way to get a birds eye view of things!