In an earlier post I shared the Google Expeditions virtual tours of national parks. Shortly after publishing that post I discovered Google’s latest additions to their Street View collections. The latest addition features Big Basin Redwoods State Park in California. This imagery lets viewers virtually experience some of the size and scale of California’s redwood forests.

Applications for Education
One good way to use Street View imagery like that in this new collection, is to organize a “Street View treasure hunt” in which students have to find examples of natural features in the landscape.

For as long as I can remember forests have always fascinated me. I’ll bet that you have students who feel the same way. This new Street View imagery will not fully satisfy their fascination, but it can give them a glimpse of a majestic forest in a way that pictures in a book cannot.