google mapping

Now, I LOVE google maps. You can spend hours on there and never even to get to know everything that there is to know.

For a classroom, Google maps could be used for pretty much any kind of subject or project. If you are studying shakespeare, you could google map all the different locations in britain that were important. Google Maps could really be helpful in history. For example: looking at important points of hte Oregon Trail, or looking at Volcanoes, or any number of things. It can help give students an idea of the distance for different locations especially when it flies from one location to another.

Google maps is a good to look at the geography of a country and can be used as an anticipatory set for a lesson. Also, you could have the students do a google map set about their lives where it goes from their house to school or where they were born or where their favorite place is. This is a good way to get the students involved with different applications.