Google Earth

Tonight I have re-opened Google earth for the first time in a long time. I had never used the street view function on google earth before so this was a new experience for me. I was surprised at some of the photos and how good of a view it gave. This was interesting to get down and look at some locations I had never seen before such as a street in New York. For students this is an invaluable tool for experiencing areas around the world. Whilst I may not have as much use for it in mathematics, there could still be creative lessons such as when we are studying trigonometry where we could research things like the Roman and Egyptian structures that were based heavily on these theorems.
In physics we could also research areas of the world of geometric and physics significance. If I was to ever teach a junior social science class Google earth would be a gold mine of opportunities.