Google Earth's Tour of The Rain Forest
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Google Earth's Tour of The Rain Forest



If you ever wanted to let your students see the rain forest up close,  you just need to click here and see the newly photographed work by Google.  It is amazing, to say the least.  I just added the video above showing how it the pictures were taken. I found the video at Open Culture. 




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