Comments on: Great ideas in the Google Earth Sightseer http://technosavvy.org/2007/02/26/great-ideas-in-the-google-earth-newsletter/ Great teaching and learning with technology Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:22:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John Wetter http://technosavvy.org/2007/02/26/great-ideas-in-the-google-earth-newsletter/comment-page-1/#comment-44717 John Wetter Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:21:52 +0000 http://technosavvy.org/2007/02/26/great-ideas-in-the-google-earth-newsletter/#comment-44717 For the Earth Science teacher, there are also a lot of great layers you can put on Google Earth for instruction. Being a weather nut, I like to use the snowfall and snowpack monitoring tools from the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center: http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/earth/ They also have some 3D fly-through animations showing snow cover information. Some neat tools to watch the snow disappear and to take a look at spring flooding potential in the classroom. Also, the national Weather service makes available all kinds of information into KMZ files for Google Earth: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/kmzgenerator.php You can get radar and satellite images and even animations, along with displaying warning polygons. The science teachers reading this will likely remember me presenting this at the Minnesota Earth Science Teachers Association workshop last month. -John For the Earth Science teacher, there are also a lot of great layers you can put on Google Earth for instruction. Being a weather nut, I like to use the snowfall and snowpack monitoring tools from the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center: http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/earth/

They also have some 3D fly-through animations showing snow cover information. Some neat tools to watch the snow disappear and to take a look at spring flooding potential in the classroom.

Also, the national Weather service makes available all kinds of information into KMZ files for Google Earth:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/kmzgenerator.php

You can get radar and satellite images and even animations, along with displaying warning polygons. The science teachers reading this will likely remember me presenting this at the Minnesota Earth Science Teachers Association workshop last month.

-John

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