Geo Tools

Searching a location

Navigating Maps via Mouse or Touch

Toggling between Map and Satellite View

Finding Directions

Showing Local images

Enabling and Navigating Google Street View

Using the Explore Panel for images and photospheres

Menu Options

• Travel key

• Personalization options (Not Recommended for students)

  • Location sharing

  • Contributions

  • Timeline

  • Embedding

Google Maps Treks: An amazing amount of created Google Maps Activities

20 Places to go on Virtual Field Trip (Matt Miller)

Google Treks Website: Learn to find and create your own.

Log into https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com

View a tour or Create tour

Creating a Tour

• Give it a name and Author

• Creating "Slides"

  • Can add pictures, video, Youtube Videos, Uploaded Videos, (Almost any type of multimedia)

  • Add Date or dates

  • Add text information

  • Add icon of location

  • Focus/ lock view

• Add new locations

• Share publicly/ privately

• Tour of Battles of Civil War

• Places I've Lived

• Places I've traveled

• Book Review, Geography analysis

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