Google+Maps

=Google Maps=

Expert and Supporter: Heather Wax

[|Google.com/maps] is the program.

To see an example of a collaborative climate map designed by Don Dobson's class, click here and move the map to view Latin America (click on tacks to see more detail): []

Considerations: Google gets weird if you have more than 10 people signed in on the same account. To make a project fly using this system, you need to create google map logins for your kiddos, but enough for all your groups keeping in mind you do not want more than 10 users on the same account. This doesn't mean you need 2~3 user names for each period however, it just means you need at least 2 or 3 usernames available during any particular period. You can reuse them in subsequent periods. If your kids are the type who might destroy each others' work, create extra usernames so they can't wipe out a whole class at once. Collaboration IS a 21st century goal however, so privatizing everything in order to prevent vandalism IS an opposite direction to where we want to go.

At any rate, things to play around with on google maps are - drawing regions, changing colors, adding photos and descriptions, and of course measuring distances. Where might this work into YOUR lesson plan? Post one below.

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