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Google Earth

Google Earth (Why use it?)

o Explore the Moon

o See Global Changes with decades of Historic Imagery

o Take tours of landing sites narrated by Apollo astronauts

o Zoom into 360 degree photos of astronauts footprints

o Observe how your neighborhood has changed throughout time

o Gives you access to the past

o Check out suburban sprawl, melting ice caps, coastal erosion and more

o Dive beneath the surface of the ocean

o View exclusive content from partners like BBC and National Geographic, Explore 3d ship wrecks (Teaching Aids)

o Turn the touring feature on and record a free form tour in google earth

o You can even add a soundtrack to personalize the journey (teaching aid to explore other parts of the world Geography)

o Be the first human being to view images downloaded by Nasa live from Mars layer

o Take interactive tours of Mars narrated by bill nye the science guy (teaching aid for science)

o Explore rich geographical content

o Save your tours and share with others (Teaching aid)

o Google outreach gives non-profits and public benefit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to visualize their cause and tell their story in Google earth and maps.

o Monitor disasters such as Haiti eathquake( teaching aid for science)

o Create a map with MY Maps feature

o Collaborate on your Maps

o Embed Maps in your website

o Create narrated tours in Google Earth (teaching tool)

o It checks visually inaccessible high places

o Views areas subjected to wide spread disasters

o It’s available in 37 languages

o Allows users to view stars and other celestial bodies

Features

· Wikipedia and Panoramic integration

· Flight Simulator

· Featured planes

· Sky Mode

· Street View

· Ocean

· Historical Imagery

· Mars

· Moon

Versions

· Mac Version

· Linux Version

· Iphone Os Version

· Google Earth Plus

· Google Earth Pro

· Google Earth Enterprise

· Google Earth Plug In

Layers

o Geographic Web

o Roads

o 3D Buildings

o Google Street View

o Borders and Labels

o Traffic

o Weather

o Gallery (Nasa,National Geographic, Tourism)

o Ocean

o Global Awareness

o Places of interest

o Sky Layers (Solar System)

o Mars Layers

Welcome to the Innovations Wiki (Moritz)

This is a real workspace! Please edit this page, create new pages, and invite others to use the workspace with you.

Getting Started

Use the sidebar to link to a new page for your Innovation topic. (One page per topic.)
Use prior class wikis to get you started on relevant content.
SITE YOUR SOURCE through a reference section at the bottom of your page.
NOTE: VERY few prior students have done this, so don't follow their example.
Provide authorship information on your page (your names & contact info, semester)
Review the Project Overview, process and evaluation rubric