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==I was very excited to see this free app. I started using Google Earth with my students this year when we began "The Great Mail Race." Each student wrote to a different 2nd grade class around the United States (some students wrote to multiple). The letter included a brief summary of our school, city, and state. It also included a questionaire for them to fill out and respond to. Once we recieved letters back, we used google earth to take a virtual field trip to the other school's city. It was a way for my students, who for the most part do not travel far from home, to see other parts of the United States.== ==In addition to "The Great Mail Race" I have used Google Earth to visit places in the World that we talk about during different lessons or when we come across places during read aloud books. For example, when we read aloud //Dragon in the Sock Drawer//, the main character often said "Let's not climb Mt. Everest before Kilimanjaro. My students didn't know what this meant, and even further didn't know they were 2 names of famous mountains. So, we went to google earth and visited the 2 mountain tops.== ==I feel this would be a powerful app for students to explore different places on their own. It shouldn't be up to me as the teacher to decide where we should and should not explore. With the power of individual iPads, students would be able to look more in depth at places they are learning about around the world.==