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Title: Customized Google Maps For Teacher Lessons And Student Projects
Session 9
Presenter - Carol LaRow
Hyatt Grand Ballroom C
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Learn how to create customized, interactive Google maps, which are included in Google Drive. Use for lessons you teach and/or have students use them to demonstrate what they have learned in units of study. Students can use “My Maps” for collaborative student projects, project-based learning, individual reports, and teaching their peers. Maps help students visualize the world around them and understand where places are located and events took place. Teachers can illustrate lessons by showing students exact locations for historical events, famous landmarks, science lessons, upcoming field trips, timelines, current events, and more. Maps can be used with Google Classroom. They can be embedded on school webpages, blogs, etc.
Maps are interactive and can be zoomed in/out for viewing. Users place “pins” on the map and add information - text, images, videos, and links to webpages for more information. Image slide shows can also be added in each pin. Colored lines and shapes can be added to indicate lesson concepts. This is a great tool for having students create projects to show geographical features, national parks, volcanoes, famous battlefields, the states, and more. “My Maps” is useful for both teachers and students. Teachers can add maps to webpages and/or post maps in Classroom for students to access as part of assignments. Student maps can be “shared” with teachers via Google Classroom, and they can be added to teacher websites to “publish” student work.
