Good Morning,
One of my favorite – OK, I have lots of favorites! – resources is the My Maps feature in Google Maps. Go to www.google.com/mymaps.
Here, you and/or your students can create a collaborative map, complete with a slide show of pictures and even include full reports.
Please watch these two videos:
· Demonstration of My Maps and ways to use it in the classroom.
On your map, you can place pins anywhere you’d like. Place them by typing in an address or dragging a pin and placing it where you’d like. Then you can name your pin, customize the pin by icon and color, add photos (from this location), and add text – even a whole report if wanted!
Your map may have up to 3 layers. The layers can be used to show differences in your pins. For example, you can have a layer for the Battles fought in the American Revolution – one layer for British wins, and one layer for American wins. Then you can click off your layer and just see the one layer.
Use maps to compare sizes of continents! Choose your base map – many options.
The best part is that if students are using my maps, they can collaborate. Maps are shareable, just as a doc.
If using an iPad, you are able to view created maps, but you aren’t able to create them. (yet…)
Again – please watch the videos to see how truly amazing this resource really is!
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