Community reviews for Google Earth

As a teaching tool, I liked that it was a real-life, true time way to show students how a community compares to the world around them. Students can find their own house and them zoom out further and further to see the world around them.

If you want to find somewhere in the world, Google Earth makes it easy. Search, zoom, and even find a photo depending on the location. The Google Earth app will provide latitude, longitude, and elevation. Great tool for students to explore places from content, but can be distracting when numerous photos are available for a locale.

Today's students are undeniably global citizens. It's important for them to learn more about the world around them as they study different cultures. With Google Earth, students can explore almost any region in the world. I like that Google Earth contains a large wealth of interactive content. The students can examine pictures and videos as they study a country to learn more about it. 3D models and street view add to the educational experience. These features allow students to embark on virtual field trips around the world! One downside is that Google Earth requires a fast internet connection.

First of all, use of Google Earth is much smoother on a laptop or desktop computer. Downloading the app onto a tablet requires lots of space and time. In addition, using the Google Earth app can slow down the tablet itself, and can definitely slow down the WiFi if several students are on at the same time. With that said, Google Earth is an excellent way to demonstrate the relationship of locations in spatial terms. One of the best features is when students are able to access user-submitted photos of a certain location and landmark.

Easy to operate. Great graphics. Cannot literally take the students to China to show destinations, so this tool is so very useful and informative.

A great program to give students a sense of space and "place". We are combining Google docs and its research tool to find information about places in the three regions of North Carolina. We will organize our placemarks into one folder and then a class folder for viewing the placemarks.

Google Earth allows teachers and students to travel on in-class field trips to places that would otherwise be impossible. The students loved being to zoom to locations and I thought it was a great tool to allow them to see locations in relationship to those places around them.

It was easy to use and the children where able to see the building we where in and the street it was on. It gave maps a whole new appeal.

My students love being able to see where composers live.

Google Earth is fantastic but a bit complicated to teach students how to create their own maps.