This book will help K-12 teachers become familiar with the basic features of Google Earth and GPS receivers so that they can bring these technologies into the classroom and provide their students with significant and engaging opportunities to conduct place-based research on diverse subjects with a spatial dimension.

This book will walk you through the basic steps of navigating Google Earth, analyzing features, formatting and sharing placemarks, and organizing and sharing data.  This book also covers GPS basics and outlines how to import the data you collect with your GPS into Google Earth. Each lesson is organized in an easy to follow step-by-step format making it easy to complete the activities.

Each activity includes colorful pictures and graphics to help users understand the more complex features of the program. Users of this book will soon be creating their own virtual tours in Google Earth.

As an added bonus, there are several teacher created lessons you can use in your classroom to help embed this transformative tool into your practice.

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