Our second graders have been enjoying stories from all around the  world.  As a culminating activity, the students searched through the  books to determine their settings.  Then we used Google Earth on the  SMART Board to identify where each country is on the globe.  The  continents are part of their social studies curriculum, and we zoomed  out to identify those as well!
Our class time just flew by, so we'll have to "book" another flight to visit the countries we missed!