GoogleEarth

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 * What is GoogleEarth?**

1. What is GoogleEarth? a virtual map of the Earth that is created form satellite images
 * Questions**

GoogleEarth is a program for viewing the earth as a globe or a map. Any location on the earth can be viewed. People can put in an address and see the terrain, map, buildings, etc. of that particular locale.

2. How does GoogleEarth work? satellite images are placed onto GoogleEarth to make almost any address serachabel to be able to see a recent image of the address

A person can put in a particular address, zip code, city, famous landmark, name of a place, etc. to view a particular area on the earth.

3. How might you use GoogleEarth with other educators and/or students? Goggle Earth could be used as a teaching tool to be able to see specific addresses and information about a specific location

When teaching earth science or social studies, it can be used as a part of a unit on maps. For earth science, it can be useful in connection with teaching topography and GPS. For learning to write directions to their homes, it can be helpful for students to see where they are going. If they are studying a particular location or country in class, they can actually "view" that place through Google Earth.