Google Earth

After I installed Google Earth, I played around with it.  I was able to locate my house, the picture was low resolution compared when looking at the Taj Mahal, the images were higher resolution and when zoomed in there was more detail and image was more clear compared to that of my home.

The map I created for my field trip to Washington, D.C. with Google Maps was able to be uploaded to Google Earth by uploading it as a KML (Keyhole Markup Language).  This is a file format that is used for storing and modeling geographic features and also models for display in Google Earth.  One can port information to Google Earth from Google Maps with use of KML file.  KML files can be displayed in both Google Earth and Google Maps.  One would want to display the information from Maps to Earth for a more detailed viewing experience.  Instead of just being able to see a plot of a point of interest on a map, Google Earth gives you a 3-D viewing experience of a landmark or from the original space view.  If you would like to see a place in 3-D that you probably won't get the opportunity to see in person, see it for yourself in a
3-D experience in Google Earth.

Click Here to view the map for the field trip to Washington, D.C.

Click Here to view a sample lesson plan for this field trip.