Hello Alison,

I teach kindergarten so I am always looking for ways to include technology in my classroom, but I look for ways that  kindergartner can be somewhat independent with the activities.  I played with Google earth and some ideas that I have for putting this to use in my classroom is for our unit on measurement.  We use many different tools in the classroom to measure items, distances etc.  It would be fun to also have the children use google earth to measure distances from our school to other areas around our community or in other states.  This would be a lot of fun for them!  When we study the story of thanksgiving, we could use google earth to find Plymouth Rock as well as England, this would be a great lesson for the kindergartners to see how far they traveled across the sea to get to America.  As I am writing this, I am thinking of many ways that I could use this this year... however I only have 3 computers in our classroom, that is always the problem!