What is Google Earth?
Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

• Fly from Space to your Neighborhood

• Search Famous Landmarks

• Measure distances across the globe

• Save and add annotations to your favorite spots on the globe

OKC Schools PDF Google Guide

Terms to know:

Layers- Layers are the ability to add things to the view of the map. Available layers include dining, lodging, banks, roads, terrain, malls, grocery stores, gas stations, parks, transit, schools and geographic features

Buildings- Will show 3-d scales of buildings in a major city or area. Use the tilt and rotate buttons to get a full 3-d view.

Sightseeing- You can zoom in on global landmarks just by clicking on a location in the "Sightseeing" box, which lists the most popular destinations, including the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Arizona's Grand Canyon and Vatican City in Rome.

More information- http://earth.google.com/tour/

Customizing. You can easily insert place marks of locations you want to return to or overlay your own images on a map you create. It's all right there in the toolbar. Google Earth reads a language called KML. You can open your own KML file in the Google Earth application and see your data displayed on the Google Earth imagery. To learn about importing your own data, check out these links:

• Keyhole: Importing Your Data Into Google Earth
• Iron Geek: Wigle Data to Google Earth
• Google Earth KML Tutorial

Want to do more? Create a pair of Atlas Gloves (apx $8) and your students will have the World in their hands! http://atlasgloves.org/demo