Overview: Google Maps (workshop outline)

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

Your project for this workshop is to access our collaborative map and input a placemark on a location in which you have had a vacation or would like to vacation. We will then modify the placemark by adding the following content: text, images, video.  You will also be modifying the placemark itself.

Our collaborative map can be found here: CLICK ME!

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Additional street view resources can be found here

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And if the above wasn't enough, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) has the following with Google Maps







Street View at the Winter Olympic Games




Link to gallery page is here

Curriculum Integration Ideas

• Pre-School Classroom 
• Lower School Classroom (Grades 1-5)  
• Middle School Classroom (Grades 6-8)  
• Upper School Classroom (Grades 9-12)
• AP Courses
  

Projects:

• Google Lit Trips 
• American Explorers 
• Clean Watersheds 
• Environmental I-Reports 
• Expedition Lit Trips 
• Poetry of Place 

Google Maps in Other Languages:

• 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/

Google Maps at the Winter Olympics here

Reference URL's

Google Lat-Long Blog
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/

Google Maps on Twitter
http://twitter.com/googlemaps

Google Maps API
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html

Google Maps Gone Wild
http://googlemapsgonewild.blogspot.com/

Google Maps Mania Blog
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/

Google Maps- City Tours
 http://citytours.googlelabs.com/

Historical Map Collections
http://www.davidrumsey.com/gmaps.html

100 Virtual Educational Tours
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2010/01/100-incredible-educational-virtual-tours-you-dont-want-to-miss/

How does google maps work
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/technology-explained-google-maps-work/