Google Earth Tours:
Google Earth Tours can be created for a variety of purposes.
Teachers sharing locations that have to do with a new unit
Teachers sharing tours of continents, ocean, landforms, etc. that will be studied in class
Scavenger hunts to explore different places.
Student created tours of landforms, cities, countries, time zones and just about any other map related concept
Student created tours to tell a story about and adventure.
Student created tours to tell about their community, town or city.
Tours can include:
Placemarks
Descriptions of places
Pictures of places
Audio telling about places
Music
Layers, 3-D Buildings, and many other special features
Embedded projects such as VoicThreads for certain places
Creating a Google Tour:
Google Earth Resources:
Tons of ideas for Google Earth: http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/GeogP/gearthplan/
Google Earth Blog: http://www.gearthblog.com/index.html
Instructional Uses for Google Earth: http://www.assortedstuff.com/stuff/?p=278
Google Earth Tours:
Google Earth Tours can be created for a variety of purposes.
Tours can include:
Placemarks
Descriptions of places
Pictures of places
Audio telling about places
Music
Layers, 3-D Buildings, and many other special features
Embedded projects such as VoicThreads for certain places
Creating a Google Tour:
Setting up the Placemarks:
Adding Audio and Saving the Tour: