Google MyMaps

Description:

• Your own personal Google Map
• Draw or add shapes anywhere on the map
• Search and find places and save them to your map
• You have the ability to import your maps into a spreadsheet
• You can add your own style to it by making your own logos, adding pictures or videos wherever you want
• The power of sharing the map with others, on a website or blog

Step-by-Step Guide:

1. In the search bar type in Google MyMaps then on its link.
2. When it pulls log in using a Google email (Gmail).
3. Since it is your 1st time click a red box that says "Create a new map."
4. This map can be used just like Google Maps, however find a specific location.
5. Under the map's search bar you will see buttons.
   • From left to right the buttons are: Undo, Redo, Select items, Add marker, Draw a line, Add directions, lastly measure distances and areas.
6. On the left side of the map you have a box that includes buttons that say: Add layer, Share, Preview. This box also includes your map's title and the layers it includes and their titles.
   • The layers are information you can import into the map.
7. At the bottom of the box on the left of the map shows a drop down arrow with the name "Base map." With this you can change how the map looks so there is 9 different ways the map can look.

Videos that help you succeed in Google MyMaps:

• Base Maps = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uyc3ykykAk
• Adding Markers and Layers = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI6-YiaPaFQ
• Adding Directions = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD-pTsYE38c

My own video (screencastify) showing you how to share your MyMap :

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m_wGwXiTHeMnmSpo0dkyk3KuNdbxJlVV/view?usp=sharing

Classroom benefits:

• Cooperative Learning
• Learn how to transfer data
• Learn historical locations
• Setting of a story
• Calculate rate of travel
• Identify locations of important events
• Provide parents with an interactive map for a field trip
• And Many More......

2 Classroom Activities:

1. In history class, you can go to different locations of major battles and mark them.
2. In math or geography class, you can calculate the rate of travel for a vacation or trip.