Google Historical Voyages And Events

• voyages of early explorers such as Henry Hudson, Columbus, Sir Francis Drake; information about the early explorers telling what they did and where they went

• historical events that played a role in the history of your area (or other parts of the World)

• early settlers in your area, the historical background of your own community

• other notable features in your own community's past - old buildings, old homesteads, churches, town common, first schoolhouse, geological formations, etc.

• famous projects, concepts, or undertakings that helped shape the World

• famous events/people that helped shape the World - events, battles, speeches, settlers, activists, etc.

• ways your area introduced commerce or travel such as the Erie Canal in New York State or waterways or railroads

• famous landmarks or historical sites, commemorating significant events

• other topics you might suggest

We would like to suggest that you use Google tools for your project. There are many tools available in Google Workspace for teachers and students. Clusters of tools can work together to enhance lessons and offer students a variety of learning tools as they work through the lessons. In addition, there are several Apple applications that allow for creating videos and audio files, which can enhance the projects. Third party software, such as Screencastify, is also available for adding extras to your project.

This site highlights Google tools.

• The projects hosted on this site should use at least two Google tools as students work though the learning part of the projects. You could certainly count doing a "Google Search" for information on the WEB as one of the tools.

• The final projects/products could use just one tool - Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Sites, Google Slides, or Google Docs, for example, to illustrate or demonstrate what the students have learned.

• You don't have to do a multimedia project. You could have students summarize what they have learned using a Google Doc. They can add images, their own drawings they've scanned, charts they've made, etc. Google Docs can be "published" as webpages and appended to your project. We have a school that did a project using Google Docs in that way. See the project entitled, "Fifth Grade Explores Explorers."

A final project is the one you post for other schools to view and use:

• It can be a project/product that demonstrates what your students have learned AFTER they have finished the learning part of the unit (a URL to link to a Google Earth WEB project, a collaborative Google Slide Presentation, a Google Sites website, a Google Map students created collaboratively with pins to show important places, Google Docs that students create summarizing what they've learned,  a Google Earth PRO KML, or a YouTube video)

• It can be a complete lesson, with links and resources, other educators can use to teach the unit

• Or, it can be a culminating activity for your project that shows students' work

• You can design it any way you wish

• Be sure and look at the exemplars we've posted on this site

• Google Earth • Docs • Photos • You Tube

• My Maps • Forms • Blogger • Keep

• Sites • Sheets • Calendar • Alerts

• Slides • Classroom • News • Books

• United States, Australia, Singapore, Argentina, Canada

• California, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia

• Use at least one Google tool (Some suggestions listed above)

• Sign up to be part of the project - Use the form on this homepage (see red arrow above)

1. The goal is to collect projects from schools all over the World. We publish both teacher and student projects for a global audience.

2. We can post your project on this website.

3. Or, you can design a WEB page we can link to. "Host" your project on that WEB page. Link to your resources off that page. If you create a Google SITE or publish a Google DOC, link to it. If you create a Google Earth historical trip with pins and text, give us the URL. We will link to your page and write a brief description of your project.

4. You might concentrate on using one "main" Google tool such as Google Earth, My Maps, Slides, or Sites pages you or your students have created. That might be the final product/project you share with other schools.

5. The "hub" of the project might be a Google Earth, Google Map, or Slides of your historical project. As students click through the pins on the maps, they might be learning or answering questions. It depends on how you'd like to set up your project. Other tools can be used as students "discover" or research the history of their selected topics.

6. You might find other Google tools useful such as Blogger or Docs or Sites or Keep as students collaborate and learn. Students can use these tools as they discover information, engage in peer-to-peer learning, and design their projects.

7. School projects on historical events might be better suited to Google Earth or Google Maps to plot events and places, to show others where the action took place.

8. When contacting Carol LaRow, please indicate which project category you will be doing. We will host your project on the appropriate page of this site.

9. We are more than willing to add categories suggested by you. We've added categories suggested by other educators.

10. Fill out the FORM to give us basic information about your school and your project.

A final project is the one we post for other schools to view, use "as is," or replicate with changes they wish to make: 

• It can be any of the following:

  • a teacher's lesson

  • individual students' projects that are culminating activities for what they've learned in a unit of study

  • group projects students have done collaboratively

  • websites developed by teachers to study a concept or curricular area that explain or dive deeper into topics

  • websites students have developed to demonstrate learning

• It does not have to be a Google Earth or Google "My Map" project. Although many of the examples on this site use Google Earth and Google "My Maps," there are others that use Google Slides or Google Docs

• It can be a project/product that demonstrates what your students have learned AFTER they have finished the learning part of the unit (a URL to link to a Google Earth WEB project, a collaborative Google Slide Presentation, a Google Sites website, a Google Map students created collaboratively with pins to show important places, Google Docs that students create summarizing what they've learned,  a Google Earth PRO KML, or a YouTube video)

• It can be a complete lesson, with links and resources, other educators can use to teach the unit. You will notice that several of the examples include what they used for essential questions, graphics organizers, rubrics, culminating activities, resources, and more.

• Or, it can be a culminating activity for your project that shows students' work

• You can design it any way you wish

• Be sure and look at the exemplars we've posted on this site

Click here to fill out a Form to submit a project

• Carol is an award-winning educator who has been training administrators, educators, staff, librarians, and school business administrators  for 25 years.

• She was a classroom teacher for 33 years

• She has combined her teaching experience with her knowledge of technology to offer professional development and training.

• She helps educators learn how to use current technologies, and is especially adept on helping others integrate technology into their curricula.

• She presents at national, statewide, and regional conferences.

• She developed this website to publish teachers' lessons and students' projects. Other educators can access the site to find and replicate lessons. Students can have their projects published so their work reaches a wider, global audience.

Carol LaRow's Educational Technologist website - resources, how-to's, handouts, Google updates, and lesson ideas for educators.

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