Tutorial Sites for Google Earth
These are good sites to get you started using Google Earth. They are also great places to look if you want to find out how to do specific things.
- Google’s Basics Tutorial- from the horse’s mouth
- The Google Earth User’s Blog- lots of good tips and tricks
- The Google Earth Blog- a lot of basics
- My Google Earth Tutorials- this is based on an older version but it’s set up to both work as a tutorial and show educational uses at the same time
Educational Resources for Google Earth
Work done by others for easy downloading. Don’t remake the wheel- look around before making things from scratch. Remember you can always mix-and-match or alter files to suit your needs.
English Files
- Google Lit Trips- great works of literature plotted out in Google Earth
Math Files
Social Studies Files
- Electoral Results from the 2004 Presidential Elections
Science Files
General Files
- Google Earth Forums- everything and anything you might want to download
- Juicy Geography’s Lesson Plan Files- not just KMZ files but whole lesson plans