Exploring the world and the curriculum with Google Earth

I don't miss seasons while living in Singapore, since I didn't grow up with them.  But I do sometimes miss walking around in quaint Victorian streetscapes, which are plentiful around my house in inner city Melbourne.

This is a streetview screenshot of the Primary School just up from my house. It's a beautiful old Victorian building - which probably doesn't lend itself to educational progressiveness, but is certainly beautiful.

I'm finding I use Google Earth to review with my learning impaired students, things they didn't understand when the teacher was presenting the information in class.  But today it led to a flurry of excited questions such as "...then where is Spain?" (because that's where Real Madrid come from !) and "..is that bigger than Russia ?" (where Mom comes from).  It was great to see the kids so engaged while still reviewing curriculum.