• Search & Get Directions
• Satellite View, Terrain View, & Traffic
• Street View
• More... (Photos, Videos, Wikipedia, Webcams)
• My Maps: Browse & Create
• Google Maps Help
• The future of Google Earth

Activity: Create A Multi-Media Map
I have shared a custom map and invited you as collaborators.

• Add a marker for your favorite place(s)
• EXTRA:
• Change the Icon
• Embed text and media into the markers, including:
• Text
• Links
• Images
• Video (use the embed code)
• Other, such as a Google Doc, Form, or Presentation

Google Maps Resources

• Clean up project - http://maps.google.com/help/maps/cleanup/index.html#utm_source=en-nws-sitsr&utm_medium=nws-sitsr&utm_campaign=en

          
Walking Tour of Pairs

Our Favorite Places Map

• We are always looking to collaborate with other teachers and their classes on project.  Feel free to check out some of our ideas, add your own, or expand on ours.  If you'd like to arrange to do a project with one of our classes contact me.
• Pre-School Classroom -  http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdwkz9w_65dzbp67gs
• Lower School Classroom (Grades 1-5) - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdwkz9w_66dvcqqbrh
• Middle School Classroom (Grades 6-8) - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdwkz9w_68dp4wdxcc
• Upper School Classroom (Grades 9-12) - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdwkz9w_69chpv96f8
• AP Courses -  http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdwkz9w_70cd42j8c3

• Here are some collaborative projects we have already started.  We are always looking for other classes to join us.  Check us out and join in at any time.
• American Explorers - http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=104315898973148836611.0004402acbce64705f5f9&ll=43.516689,-96.240234&spn=37.880586,59.589844&t=h&z=4&om=1
  
• Clean Watersheds - http://cleanwatersheds.wikispaces.com
• Environmental I-Reports - http://goapes.wikispaces.com/ireport
• Expedition Lit Trips - http://outdoortech.wikispaces.com
• Google Lit Trips - http://www.googlelittrips.org/
• Map Your Clean Up - http://maps.google.com/help/maps/cleanup/index.html#utm_source=en-nws-sitsr&utm_medium=nws-sitsr&utm_campaign=en
• Our Lost Children - http://ourlostchildren.wikispaces.com
• Poetry of Place - http://poetryofplace.wikispaces.com
• Trace Your Trash - http://goapes.wikispaces.com/traceyourtrash

• Here are some application that you can use and then embed in Google Maps and Earth.
• SlideShare - http://www.slideshare.net/
• Podomatic - http://www.podomatic.com/
• Quizzlet - http://quizlet.com/user/Quizzlet/
• VoiceThread - http://ed.voicethread.com/
• YouTube - http://www.youtube.com

• Students of foreign languages can be tasked to locate cities, give directions, or create placemarks about museums, shops, geographical features and other cultural practices.
• Chinese Maps - http://ditu.google.cn/
• French Maps - http://maps.google.fr/
• German Maps - http://maps.google.de/
• Spanish Maps - http://maps.google.es/
• Italian Maps - http://maps.google.it/
• Russian Maps - http://maps.google.ru/

For Google Earth tutorial, ideas on how to incorporate Google Earth and other Web 2.0 tools in your classroom, go to Teens and Technology and then click on the GPS and GIS page in the left-hand column.