by kkermode | Sep 12, 2017 | activity idea, collaboration, creativity, field trips, global education, project ideas, virtual reality
We are firm believers that our students need opportunities to create. Our world is inundated with tools and sites and media and social platforms for consumption. The more we can get our kids creating the better. When someone is creating, they begin to think about...
by kkermode | Sep 12, 2017 | global education
Google Expeditions just keeps getting better and better. First and foremost, here’s an updated spreadsheet of all expeditions, with 92 new expeditions to choose from. So many amazing choices! Another amazing searchable database of expeditions can be found here,...
by kkermode | Sep 12, 2017 | art, arts and culture, english language arts, field trips, global education, google earth, maps, social studies, street view, virtual reality, youtube
What better way to engage kids than to offer an exploration of places no longer passable by humans? Below are resources and links for exploration of places impassable or hard-to-reach for most people. Temples of Angkor Places only...
by kkermode | Sep 12, 2017 | global education
The Street View app is packed with opportunities to create your own treks. At it’s simplest level, a student can open up the street view app and use the camera icon to create a 360º image by connecting the dots and the app stitches them together into one image....
by kkermode | Sep 12, 2017 | global education
Staying connected and safe while traveling or getting from one place to another has never been so easy. There are a few options. The one mentioned on page 37 is the companion app. This is available currently for iOS. The companion app allows a user to select their...
by kkermode | Sep 12, 2017 | global education
This is an opportunity for students to do some comparing of modes of transportation and how long each one takes to get to or from specific locations. When using the directions option in the My Maps tool bar, it automatically creates a new layer. From there it is...
by kkermode | Sep 12, 2017 | global education
As teachers, we do not always have time to build a map from scratch. By using a few search parameters, we can curate map content easily, and spend more time building out our lesson plans. To find KMZ/KML files on the web, go to Google.com to begin the search. If I...
by kkermode | Sep 12, 2017 | global education
Forms and Sheets are a great way to collect data or information that you may want to visualize or display on a map. This works extremely well for large sets of information or markers you’d like displayed. For example, in chapter 1 we share about the educator having...
by kkermode | Sep 12, 2017 | activity idea, competencies, global education, google maps, maps, math, my maps, science, social studies
When we are exploring maps our students sometimes they forget that the world they’re looking at on a flat screen has been distorted so that they can see all of the countries straight on. This distortion to maps is called Mercator Projection. When we put the...
by kkermode | Sep 9, 2017 | global education
It’s no secret, we LOVE My Maps as a way for students to create maps, visually display information connected to place, and make the ultimate real world connections. The ideas are pretty limitless as far as what can be placed on a My Map. Here are some of our...
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