Maps

                  Route 1: Getting Your Feet Wet

Click here to edit the Map below, and then press "Edit" and use the Placemarker to drop where you're originally from and tell us your name, school, position, how many years you've been in education, and where you're traveling for holiday break! You can:
  • Change the Icon
  • Embed text and media into the markers, including Text, Links to your Website, Images, A Video (use the embed code, or Other, such as a Google Doc, Form, or Presentation
  • Think of the ways this can be used in your curriculum


                     Route 2: Diving in Deep!

Take a moment and check out the area map around your school. Think of a math concept your students could explore or practice, and drop a pin there as a prompt or a problem! Use the line and shading tool to make shapes, prompt for distances, you name it!


Resources

Information:

Getting started with My Maps
Google Maps Video Tutorials
Add Google Maps to your other website
Maps Help
Upload a Google Earth tour to Google Maps by GCT Daniel Rezac
Google Maps Tips for Life
Maps to the Next Level: Tag 'em with Panaramio!
How to Make a GoogleTrek!
Google Map Maker
Curriculum Ideas

Story-Writing: James and the Giant Peach
Math Maps: Finding Math Where You Are!
American Explorers 
Clean Watersheds 
Environmental I-Report
Poetry of Place 
Pre-School Classroom 
Lower School Classroom (Grades 1-5)  
Middle School Classroom (Grades 6-8)  
Upper School Classroom (Grades 9-12)
AP Courses 
Historic Maps in the Classroom
Information:

Google Earth Starter Kit
Google Earth Blog
Google Earth Help Page
Google Earth Community
twitter.com/GoogleEarth
Free Google Earth Webinars
Education Showcase
Google Earth Showcase
Google Earth Tutorials
Advanced: KML Files
Step-by-Step Make a Tour
Create a Placemark, Tour, Image Overlays
Want KMZs? 

Google Earth Education KMZ Gallery
Curriculum Ideas

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