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by Tian Tan Have you ever wanted to explore the Moon, or the red planet Mars? With the release of Google Earth 5, now you can! What is Google Earth? Google Earth is an application that can be downloaded for free from the Google Earth website (http://earth.google.com). It allows the user . . . → Read More: Looking at Our Neighbors in Space By: Robert Greer Climate change is a growing concerning across the globe. Duke addresses various aspects of climate change under the Nicholas School of Environmental Sciences & Policy. Professors of these courses can enhance the classroom with the visualizing capabilities of Google Earth. A Supplement to Current Teaching Methods Professors have the opportunity to engage . . . → Read More: Visualizing Global Climate Change By Jeremy Ruch Third-party applications developed for Google Earth provide a visual aid for curricula. These applications (learn more about how they work here) allow teachers to display historical, scientific, or geographic data in a new and tantalizing format. Below are some examples of applications relating to oceans and bodies of water that could change . . . → Read More: The deep blue seas of Google Earth By Daniel Oh What is Google Earth? Google Earth is one of the best known virtual globe programs, launched June 28, 2005 (Google, 2006). It enables any internet user who downloaded the program to gain easy access to the whole globe that closely represents the actual world, using satellite . . . → Read More: Google Earth in Education: Visual Aid and Beyond By Dustin Woo
Everybody wants classes to be fun, right? Learning rules and memorizing facts can get old fast. History class, especially, can benefit greatly from different medias of learning to complement the copious amount of names and dates. History classes involve a lot of memorization, which can be difficult without ways to . . . → Read More: History Meets Geography in the Classroom by: Kevin Wang Google Earth, a freeware released by Google Corporation in 2005, can be used in classrooms, specifically History, Public Policy, Sociology, and International Relations classes, to demonstrate the way different countries and racial groups interact with each other. Why Google Earth? – 3-D images – currency (up to date information) – integration of . . . → Read More: Google Earth and Racial Relations By Xiaochuan Sha What is Google Earth? Please click Here to see an introduction to Google Earth (click to download). A Time to Use Google Earth Now it’s a time to replace terrestrial globe, maps and data tables with Google Earth. By using Google Earth, teaching epidemiology is never easier before! Empowered by Google Earth, . . . → Read More: In epidemiology: Google Earth is not just a toy by: Don Husa Many people are aware of the visualization capabilities of Google Earth. However, the idea of using Google Earth for more than just viewing houses isn’t an obvious one. Google Earth, a virtual globe that pieces satellite images together, can also be used as a teaching tool. Google Earth is especially relevant to . . . → Read More: Google Earth in Geoscience By Ricky Tae Hyun Park Why Use Google Earth? When we look at history textbooks, we can see a lot of maps with arrows and lines to indicate various information, such as attack routes or the reign of a kingdom. However, students find difficult to understand the maps mainly because the map is partial or . . . → Read More: Teaching History with Google Earth By Osvaldo Venegas Faculty planning a lesson on population density? Make Google Earth your guide in order to simplify and make your lesson more interactive. Google Earth provides an array of applications which allow for a more interactive lesson. Here are a few applications which may help make an environmental impact or sociology class a . . . → Read More: Population Density Lesson with Google Earth |
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