1. Turn on the borders layer in GE and have students recognize various states, provinces, and countries.

2. Create a placemark about life at home (e.g. birthday, wedding, anniversary). Have students write about life at home and then upload the information and a picture of their home into different placemarks. Students can see where other students live and what their life at home is like.

3. Identify important figures in the community (e.g. fireman, policeman, doctors, nurses, heros). Have them come to school to talk about their jobs and where they work. Record the interview, upload it to YouTube and then geocode each interview into placemarks that relate the job to where they work in the local community.

4. Create a series of placemarks that recognize traditions in America and where they originated. You can use overlays (e.g. lines, arrows or import other symbols) or code a "fly to" command to connect the placemarks.

5. Use the weather layer data to track rainfall over a period of time and then use this data to explain the importance of water to animals, plants and humans.

6. Create placemarks about our Presidents that explain where they were born. Include a picture of their home and explain important aspects of their lives. You could use the animation (Movie Maker) tools to fly around from placemark to placemark in order of their term of presidency, creating a timeline.

7. Create a map of people who explored America. Use the line tool to trace their path across America (or another country) and create placemarks along the line to explain important events.

8. Use the GE globe to explore distances between places (e.g. distance between student home and school, size of states, distance across oceans). Stiudents can convert distances between standard and metric units.

9. Create placemarks with pictures of monies from around the globe and associate them with the country and information about its monitory system. You could scrabble the placemarks and have students match the placemarks with the country.

10. Explain what the different colors represent on the globe, add the grid overlay which shows latitude and longitude and then have students identify and count a particular object (e.g. houses, buildings, lakes) within a set of coordinates. Students can employ addition, subtraction, and other math principles by comparing one region to another. Transfer data to Excel or Google Spreadsheets and create a graph to compare regions.

11. Use the polygon tool to create different 2 dimensional shapes and then compare them to natural shapes (e.g. lakes, mountain ranges, rivers, golf courses).

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