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Global news with a spatial perspective: Interesting, current supplemental materials for geography students and teachers. http://geographyeducation.org
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Free site dedicated to help teachers educate and engage students using Google Earth
Seth Dixon's insight:
GE Teach is a phenomenal site, designed by an AP teacher to bring geospatial technologies into the classroom in a way that is incredibly user-friendly. This site allows you to use Google Earth with clickable layers. With multiple data layers of physical and human geography variables, this interactive globe puts spatial information in powerful, yet fun, student-inspired platform. Click here for a video tutorial. Tags: google, virtual tours, geospatial, edtech. 
Kristen McDaniel's curator insight,
March 29, 9:54 AM
Use Google Earth in the classroom with clickable layering of maps. Great for bringing Geography into your classroom! Delete the scoop?
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"See Rome as it looked in 320 AD and fly down to see famous buildings and monuments in 3D. Select the 'Ancient Rome 3D' layer under Gallery in Google Earth."
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What happens whe you teach ancient historical geography using modern geospatial technologies? Great things can happen and new perspectives on the world can open up for students and teachers alike. Tags: historical, google, virtual tours, Italy, geospatial, edtech. 
Reneé Windle's curator insight,
May 1, 10:44 PM
This is a really interesting way to visualise what Ancient Rome looked like thousands of years ago and to learn about some of Rome's most historical landmarks in relation to the Roman Empire. Delete the scoop?
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Find out how the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Native Americans celebrated the first Thanksgiving together at Plymouth Plantation. Thanksgiving is right around the corner and this is a great resource with videos, primary documents, virtual field trips and lesson plans for all grades, K-12. Students can see aspects of lifestyles, housing types and economic activies of both the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags. For more resources about the Mayflower and the historically re-enacted village, see the Plimoth Plantation website. Tags: K12, seasonal, historical, colonialism, virtual tours. Delete the scoop?
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Looking for Jim Morrison's grave? There are countless famous people buried in Paris' most famous cemetery. This virtual tour is as close as most of us will get to exploring it this school year. Delete the scoop?
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This is one of the more impressive cultural landmarks in the world, and an architectural marvel. Studying the cultural landscape reveals that multiple 'layers' are superimposed one upon another. This phenomenon, known as sequent occupance, is most plainly manifested in this site. The Haga Sophia has been both a Christian and Muslim holy site, depending which political empire has controlled the city of Istanbul. Delete the scoop?
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One of the amazing memories of my trip to Europe was visiting the Vatican and developing a kink in my neck from marveling at the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. No photography is allowed to preserve reverence in what many consider not only a cultural heritage site, but a holy site. This link is the next best thing to being in the Vatican staring at the Sistine Chapel. We might not be able to travel the world with our students, but this can help us bring the world to our classroom. Delete the scoop?
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Google Earth is a great teaching tool for geographers, but it is also a way to bring geography and spatial thinking to other disciplines. Google Lit Trips makes the journeys that take place in literature (both fiction and non-fiction) all the more real by mapping out the movements as a KML file that can be viewed in Google Earth. By embedding pictures, websites, videos and text into the path, this becomes an incredibly interactive resource for teachers of all levels. Tags: google, virtual tours, English, edtech. 
Ann-Laure Liéval's curator insight,
March 17, 7:51 AM
Utiliser Google Earth pour cartographier l'itinéraire de personnages de fiction, afin de mêler géographie et littérature. 
GoogleLitTrips Reading List's comment,
March 19, 10:30 PM
I'm very appreciative. Thanks! Jerome, GoogleLitTrips.com
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Geography, by the strictest of definitions is Earthbound because of its name; but all geographers have had a spirit of exploration that spurs them to make new discoveries about exotic places and unopened frontiers. Who hasn't dreamed of putting on a spacesuit and exploring the great unknown of space? This interactive feature is about as close as 99.99% of us will ever get to strapping on a spacesuit and making and enjoying an extraterrestrial voyage. Delete the scoop?
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The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History is a fabulous resource in Washington D.C., but now this museum available virtually. Teachers can now bring the museums to the classroom with these fantastic Smithsonian virtual tours. Tags: biogeography, virtual tours, environment, ecology, historical, physical. Delete the scoop?
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This Google Map is database for some highly educational virtual tours that can be used in social science classrooms. Included are 60 markers which represent more than 60 webcams and virtual tours. This list of 'online field trips' becomes a powerful way to open up the world to your students. Sample locations: Pryamid at Giza, Yellowstone Nat'l Park, Stonehenge, Great Barrier Reef and many more. Via dilaycock Delete the scoop?
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From the Eiffel Tower, you can pan and zoom to see the whole city. This could be a fantastic 'hook' for an urban geography class. Paris has been the model for so many urban restructuring projects, that this would work nicely as grist for discuss centering on ideas of urbanism (and it's just stunningly gorgeous). Enjoy playing with this as it is very easy to manipulate and control. Delete the scoop?
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All these pictures have really opened my eyes to what is out there in the world. For a guy that was never really interested in traveling these pictures opened the imagination and actually make me think that traveling could be highly rewarding.
it's very cool spot on the plant, thats for sure.