How to Teach With Google Earth part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with Google Earth
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Google Earth Investigations of Folded and Faulted Landforms part of Geodesy:Activities
Hillary Hamann, University of Denver
This activity utilizes Google Earth (the free downloadable version) to investigate folded and faulted landscapes and to review crustal deformation processes and associated landform features.

Tale of Two Cities (and two hurricanes): New Orleans part of Environmental Geology:Activities
Thomas Juster, University of South Florida
This is an activity that uses the spreadsheet program Excel to explore the origins of subsidence in New Orleans. There are two versions. The first is a traditional Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum (SSAC) module ...

Fluvial and Alluvial Sedimentology Incorporating Google Earth part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Elizabeth Cassel, University of Idaho
A lab activity for an undergraduate sedimentary geology course focused on fluvial and alluvial sedimentology, incorporating Google Earth.

Acoustic Waves and Seismac part of Geodesy:Activities
Remke Van Dam, Michigan State University
The students will expand on their knowledge of acoustic signals (from class lectures and book readings) by watching videos and doing an in-class exercise with the seismac program.

"ZirChron" Virtual Zircon Analysis App part of Petrology:Teaching Examples
Mark Schmitz, Boise State University
This web-based app is designed to help students evaluate a radioisotopic age and its uncertainty based upon the collection of data, the application of statistics, and the interpretation of geological and analytical ...

Calculating Rb-Sr Isochrons part of Petrology:Teaching Examples
Andy Barth, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis
This is a spreadsheet that I use in petrology to walk students through calculating Rb-Sr isochrons and talking about isotope heterogeneity and sampling at various scales. The example exercise is the Tuolumne ...

KML Examples from the Google Earth Community Forums part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with Google Earth
An effective means of learning about KML is to open existing KML files in Google Earth to find out how they function, and then to examine the content of these files in a text editor to investigate how that ...

Teaching with Google Earth part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with Google Earth
Glenn Richard, SUNY at Stony Brook
Created by Glenn A. Richard, Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook University Updates by Diana Krupnick and Beth Pratt-Sitaula, UNAVCO A Guide to Using Google Earth in the Geoscience Classroom What is Google ...

Why Teach With Google Earth? part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with Google Earth
Jump down to a discussion comparing Google Earth Pro with GIS Google Earth Pro: presents a great deal of information in a geographic context is easy to install and use is an excellent venue for inquiry-based ...