Search any place on Earth and put it on the whiteboard — satellite, map or terrain, plus night lights and the ocean floor. Zoom from the whole planet down to a single street while the class watches.
Local-area geography lands the moment a class sees the roof of their own school, the field, and the streets they walk down. Search the school name or the postcode and zoom in. Then pull back out and compare it with a city, a rainforest, a desert or a river delta.
Set the map exactly where you want it and share it as a code, link or QR. Every child opens that view on their own device — no account, nothing to install, no hunting around for the right place. The code lasts a day, which is the length of a lesson and then some.
Can I show the children our own school from above?
Yes — search the name or postcode and zoom in.
Which views can I switch between?
Satellite, map and terrain, plus overlays including night lights and the ocean floor.
Can I send a view to the class?
Yes — as a code, link or QR. Children open the same view with no account, and the code lasts 24 hours.
Is Earth Explorer free?
Yes — completely, and it uses no tokens.
Want the class to label what they’ve seen? Map Printer prints blank outline maps. For a guessing game version, try GeoSpotter or GeoMystery. And to show how flat maps distort what you’ve just explored, compare countries’ real sizes.