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/

How To Create A My Map In Google Maps

Behind The Scenes Look At Street View

Additional Street View Resources Are Located Here


Other Cool And Useful Map Sites


View Larger Map



And EVEN MORE really really really cool stuff

If you have an iPhone you can download this app for free, for a limited time from iTunes here

If you have an Android phone you can use the Barcode Scanner App.

Once you have the app go here and hold your phone up to the barcode

Here is another one to try, see who can get it first

And a cool video for even even more

YouTube Video

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

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"