Use Google Earth - teach map reading and so much more

Google Earth is an outstanding resource with content that goes beyond geography to social computing, science and history.

It shows your position on a map of the earth but you can also quickly "fly" to any place by typing the destination into the search bar.

Ellie flew to Antarctica, Africa and even our old house in Trinidad!

While showing Ellie how my RC plane flies over our parks we looked at GE to see our house and the relative position of the park and nearby grocery.




She loves flying my plane simulators.  GE has a built-in version of a flying simulator where you can fly over the maps with joystick control.


Recently, we found entries in GE where we can track live marine animals and follow where they swim.

Paige and Ellie want to "adopt" animals and do a journal on the wanderings of these creatures.  Stay tuned!!