World History
- Battles And Routes Of Alexander The Great
OK, I have to admit it. Google Earth is really cool. Not only can you use it to see who may have been parking in front of the homes of people you know, you can make some interesting history tools. Battles and Routes of Alexander the Great is a real nice...
- World Wonders Project
A lot of us use Google Earth to show our students important historical sites. Well now Google Earth has put 132 historical sites into one location called the World Wonders Project. which includes Google Earth images as well as information abou...
- Google Earth Tour Of The Panama Canal
One of my teacher-students, Carl Jones, found the video above of a Google Earth tour of the Panama Canal. Carl enjoys making Google Earth tours of many of his unit destinations. However rather than having to create a new Google Earth destination...
- Google Earth For Mobile Devices
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- Google Maps Mania & Google Earth
Here is a new blog I just found that shows how people around the world are using Google Maps. I have used it with my students to show their own history and another person in my department uses it for "history trips." You can add pictures...
World History
World Energy Consumption
So I am here at our Google National Geographic institute and we are learning Google Earth. One of cool features is that you can see energy consumption in the world. Above is a youtube video on it. I always tell my kids that the US is 1/25th of the world's population, but consumes 1/4 of the world's products as the video above graphically shows.
- Battles And Routes Of Alexander The Great
OK, I have to admit it. Google Earth is really cool. Not only can you use it to see who may have been parking in front of the homes of people you know, you can make some interesting history tools. Battles and Routes of Alexander the Great is a real nice...
- World Wonders Project
A lot of us use Google Earth to show our students important historical sites. Well now Google Earth has put 132 historical sites into one location called the World Wonders Project. which includes Google Earth images as well as information abou...
- Google Earth Tour Of The Panama Canal
One of my teacher-students, Carl Jones, found the video above of a Google Earth tour of the Panama Canal. Carl enjoys making Google Earth tours of many of his unit destinations. However rather than having to create a new Google Earth destination...
- Google Earth For Mobile Devices
...
- Google Maps Mania & Google Earth
Here is a new blog I just found that shows how people around the world are using Google Maps. I have used it with my students to show their own history and another person in my department uses it for "history trips." You can add pictures...