1. Google Earth
Tutorial

3. How can we engage learners today?

4. Use technology!

5. What is Google Earth?
• Free downloadable program
• Allows users to virtually explore the globe
• Uses satellite imagery
• Allows users to ―fly‖ around the globe
• Allows users to create their own tours and
paths
• Allows virtual exploration of oceans, sky,
moon and Mars

6. Why use Google Earth?
• Free
• Easy to use
• Good for many subject areas
• Strengthens technology skills
• Provides a real world look at the physical earth
(grasslands, deserts, mountains, fjords, etc)
• Allows visual exploration of news around the
world
• Great for learning about history and geography

7. Why are teachers using Google Earth?
• You can expose learners to the world beyond your
school and community. Flying learners from the
deserts of Africa to the CN Tower to Antarctica
brings a wide range of subject matter alive.
• Learners can use Google Earth to investigate
places they are studying.
• Its interactive nature encourages users to keep
using it—to fly to places they used to live in or new
places, or scenes of events in the news, or parts of
the world they may never visit in person.

8. What can I explore?
• You can zoom in and explore any place
on earth, but . . . many smaller places
have very low resolution.
• For example, Yellowknife is well marked
and has high resolution, whereas Fort
Providence has low resolution and does
not show street level.

9. How do I learn more about Google Earth?
Check out these blogs, user groups and forums
that share ideas and experiences about using
Google Earth in the classroom, as well as
lesson plans and activities.
– Google for Educators
– Google Earth for Educators: 50 Exciting Ideas for
the Classroom
– How to Teach with Google Earth
– The Best Resources for Google Earth Beginners
Like Me

10. What are some easy things I can do?
• View an image of your school, home, or any
place on Earth.
• Go on a world tour.
• View other cool locations and features created
by other Google Earth users.
• View 3D terrain of a place.
• View 3D buildings.
• View weather information.
• View historical maps.

11. Online tutorials
• Google Earth offers excellent beginner
tutorials for using the program.
• Check them out:
– Google Earth: Beginner Tutorials
• Street View
• 3D Trees
• Historical Imagery
• Navigation
• Searching for Places
• Drawing and Measuring
• Placemarks and Tours
• Exploring Mars, Moon and Sky
• Moon in Google Earth

12. A quick tour
• You can take a quick tour
of Google Earth when you
open the program.
• Go to help and choose
Start-up Tips. It will show
you how to get started.
• The next few slides are
from the Google Earth
Feature Tour.

13. Navigation tool

14. Search panel

15. Place panel

16. Layers panel

17. Hide sidebar

18. Add a placemark

19. Add a polygon

20. Add a path

21. Add an image overlay

22. Record a tour

23. Historical imagery

24. Sunlight

25. Explore earth, sky, mars or the moon

26. Ruler

27. Share

28. The basics
• The following pages show some of the
basics to get you started using Google
Earth.

29. Download Google Earth

30. Launch Google Earth
Double click on
Google Earth to
launch the program.

31. Always read the tip of the day!

32. Choose overview map

33. Under view – Show navigation tool

34. Go to ‗Fly‘ and type in ‗Yellowknife‘

35. Type in an address in Yellowknife

36. Zoom in
• You can zoom in by either clicking on the
interface
• Or you can use your navigation tools

37. Take a tour of Yellowknife at street level

38. Click points of interest

39. Click points of interest

40. Click points of interest

41. Click points of interest