Google Earth/Maps could be used to:

1. Create placemarks with pictures, video and audio clips of famous poems that could be listened to by students. Student could draw a picture about the poem the listened to.

2. Zoom in on where a studnet lives and have them identify various objects and their colors on the satellite image, such as houses, roads, trees, and cars.

3. Students can identify their home, and another location in the neighboorhood (e.g. store, hospital, friend's house) and be asked to give simple directions on how to get home.

4. Create a tour of the alphabet using the first letter of famous places around the city (e.g. Atlanta) so students would know where these places are in relation to where they live. You could mix up the placemarks and have students put them in alphabetical order.

5. Use the line and path tools to draw shapes around objects (e.g. lakes, streams, parks, buildings) and ask students to describe their shape, color, and function.

7. Create placemarks with various pictures of animals (e.g. whale, panda, lion) and associate them with a particular location. Later, show them a layer with the placemarks scattered around the globe and have students point out where they belong.

8. Create placemarks and embed videos with contemporary issues and be able to associate features of a place from the video to the satellite image. They could look at a video on the Kentucky Derby and identify the same features on the satellite image.

9. Create placemarks and add pictures about different social groups and different cultures. Have students identify the particular culture and where they live, such as various Indian reservations around the United States.

10. Create placemarks of various places (e.g. stores, schools) with people engaged in different activities (eating diner, buy groceries) and have students talk about how they should behave in these places and during different situations.

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