2. Local Tour Create a tour of the local area. This could be for ‘a new pupil’ or to send to a partner school. Pupils could embed pictures and descriptions about different places. This could take place on a variety of scales National, Local, or even the immediate area around the school.

3. Change in the Local Area Children can use the historical imagery feature to look at how the area around their homes and school has changed in their lifetime.

4. Overlay OS Maps Ordnance Survey maps can be overlaid on Google Earth to allow pupils to compare the differences in different types of maps and satellite imagery.

5. Ancient Rome The ancient Rome layer can be used when looking at Ancient Rome to get a 3D look at some of the key buildings.

6. Measuring Distance The onscreen ruler can be used to help pupils answer the question, how far is it to ______?

7. Night and Day Use the time slider to explore the difference between night and day and how that varies across the globe.

8. Google Sky, Moon, and Mars These additional features of Google Earth may be useful for Science Projects.

9. Decision Making Google Earth can be used to help pupils make decisions about their local area. E.g. where would the best site be for a new housing estate, school, rubbish dump, etc.

10. Pre-Trip Before taking a trip look at and explore the area using Google Earth.

13. Your placemark will be available for the duration of your Google Earth Session. To save it for future use right click on the placemark and save it in a location of your choice. This is useful for saving placemarks for pupils to use. In addition you can also create folders and save folders of placemarks all at once.Looking at Change over Time in Google Earth The amount of different images you have available will depend on the region you are looking at. Open Google Earth. Zoom to your chosen destination. Click on the ‘show historical imagery button’ () You can then use the slider to move between different dates. The best area that I have found to explore this is The Bird’s Nest Stadium In China. Type ‘National Stadium, Beijing in the search box.