Creating #Beyond4

Google MyMaps & Narratives

Geographic inquiry helps people understand and appreciate their own place in the world, and fosters curiosity about Earth’s wide diversity of environments and cultures.

Geographic reasoning requires using spatial and environmental perspectives, skills in asking and answering questions, and being able to apply geographic representations including maps, imagery, and geospatial technologies...

Geographic reasoning brings societies and nature under the lens of spatial analysis, and aids in personal and societal decision making and problem solving.

C3 Framework for Social Studies

MyMaps

  1. Walk through
    1. Tools
    2. Add a location marker
    3. Draw a shape or line
    4. Add content to a location
    5. Share / Collaborate
  2. Creating Maps with Data
  3. Advanced
    1. Custom Address Lists from a Spreadsheet: Map a List
    2. Fusion Tables - using public data to create maps
    3. Google Maps Gallery - explore overlays on top of Google Maps
  4. Resources
    1. Getting to Grips with My Maps

Narratives

  1. Tour Builder
    1. Easy!
    2. https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/
    3. Build map “stories” that lead people through a sequential trip around Google Earth.
    4. Example: Revolutionary War
  2. Odyssey
    1. Advanced
    2. Odyssey.js
    3. Can scroll through story and map auto-zooms, adjusting to which part of narrative you’re in
    4. Example: The journey of the HMS Beagle
  3. Esri Story Maps
    1. Advanced to create; easier to explore
    2. http://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/

GoogleLitTrips!!