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**Project Ideas for Using Google Earth/ Google Maps in Language Arts and Social Studies**
Literature Tours
 * Plot lines - plot the places mentioned in a story.
 * Author's life - where an author was born, lived, lives, where they studied or found inspiration.
 * Character tours - tours of the places the characters in a story have visited.
 * Examples: Travels of Odysseus in Google Earth, Google Lit Trips.

Digital Storytelling
 * Autobiographies
 * Summer Vacation Trips
 * Create a fictional story about the places you want to visit.

Social Studies
 * Military campaigns.
 * Demographic data
 * Economic data
 * Election data
 * Historical imagery
 * Virtual field trips
 * Expansion and contraction of borders.
 * Environmental data