Fieldwork
Google Earth skills sheets
These skills sheets will guide you through a range of Google Earth techniques of varying degrees of difficulty. They can also be printed off and used with your students. The skills sheets are for use with Google Earth version 4.3.
| 1 | Finding places | Use the search engine to fly to a place. | Beginner | Download |
| 2 | Using the 3-D viewer | Navigate your way around using the rotate, look, move and zoom controls. | Beginner | Download |
| 3 | Using layers | View the additional information contained in layers created by Google. | Beginner | Download |
| 4 | Opening saved placemarks | Open Google Earth placemarks that you have saved from another source. | Beginner | Download |
| 5 | Creating a placemark | Create and edit your own placemarks, and add labels and descriptions. | Intermediate | Download |
| 6 | Organising, saving and touring placemarks | Save your placemarks in a folder and tour them. | Intermediate | Download |
| 7 | Creating a path | Draw, label, format and describe a route between two or a series of points. | Intermediate | Download |
| 8 | Measuring distance | Find out the distance between two points or the length of a path in a range of units. | Intermediate | Download |
| 9 | Advanced Placemarks | Format placemark text and add images, video and weblinks. | Advanced | Download |
| 10 | Creating a polygon | Draw a polygon to highlight a particular area and create a 3-D shape to represent different values. | Advanced | Download |