Lead Learner: Wendy Gorton @WendyGorton

The Tool: http://maps.google.com

The Crib Sheet: Maps 

Agenda:

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Google Apps EDU for Astoria Maps

Google Apps EDU for Astoria Maps

Help:

• Google Earth Blog
• Google Maps Mania Blog
• Google Maps Help Page
• Google Earth Help Page
• Google Earth Community
• twitter.com/GoogleEarth
• twitter.com/GoogleMaps 

Google Maps Tutorial:

• Getting started with My Maps
• 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

Extending and Using Google Maps:

• Lesson Plan Ideas for UK Schools
• Google Lessons - features some Geo Apps Lessons
• Where is Street View available?
• Google's collection of favourite places around the world
• Google Building Maker
• Google Crisis Response - Oil Spill
• Find Locations of Great Paintings -http://geocodedart.com/
• 24 Interesting Ways to Use Google Earth in the Classroom
• Google's Geo Education Page 
• Maths Maps
• Pre-School Classroom 
• Lower School Classroom (Grades 1-5)
• Middle School Classroom (Grades 6-8) 
• Upper School Classroom (Grades 9-12) 
• Clean up project

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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/

More information can be found 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


If you have an Android Phone

Sky Map

My Tracks

Edit Your "My Maps"

Explore:

Google Map

Google Map

Activity One: Where Ya From?

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• Click here to edit the Map below, and then press "Edit" and use the Placemarker to drop where you were born and tell us your name, position, hobby, and your summer plans! Bonus points for including a picture or video :)
  

View Google Apps EDU Training, Astoria: Where we're from! in a larger map
Activity Two: Lewis and Clark Story Map

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Write part of an expedition diary using Google Maps!

• Head over to the Lewis and Clark Expedition Story
• Choose a spot along the trail and drop a placemarker and write a couple of sentences as either Lewis or Clark-- how's the trail going? Anything happen in your location today?-- and add a picture about where you're at!

View Lewis and Clark Expedition Story in a larger map

Activity Three: Make a Map!

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• Think of how you can use a Google Map in your classroom with your subject area. Need some ideas? Check out the resources on the left.
  
• Create a map!
  

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