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E16: Tour the World with the New Google Earth

Create your own maps and stories in Google Earth

5 Tips to Start Creating with Google Earth (FREE PDF from Google) - CHEAT SHEET

Creating Stories About the World

• The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank LitTrip)
• Math on Maps
• Golden Eagle Migration

LitTrips

https://arvr.google.com/tourcreator/

Creating with Google Earth: 10 ideas to try (Ditch That Textbook blog)

• Identify important locations in a story/history
• Show the timeline of a person’s life
• Relive a trip
• Do a “Day in the Life” project
• Tell a fictional story
• Do place-based math problems
• Do a collaborative class map
• Create a yearbook/newspaper supplement
• Create a school/district resource about other schools
• Create a “where are they now?” map

Some features in Google Earth’s creation tools:

• Placemarks
• Lines and shapes
• Street View
• Slides
• Present

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Dianne Miller Duncan (Southern California) -- How can I use Google Classroom or other Google tools for independent study students? Teachers have a variety of grades on the roster. Setting up one google classroom would be hard.

Thanks to Brian Briggs for sharing this #createwithchrome Google advent activity: bit.ly/CreateAdvent

On The Blogs

• Matt:
  • 20 sites for students with free time on their hands
  • FREE Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit (December 21-January 8): DitchSummit.com
• Kasey:
  • 6 FREE Google Templates for Teachers and Students from TechChef4U
  • Holiday Reading: 6 Books to Transform Your Classroom

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