Join us at Fall CUE!

The Google geo tools enable everyone to interpret and understand the concept of “place” meanwhile making connections to cultures, nature, locations, physical features, environmental changes, and more. Increase students’ geo-literacy skills, by giving them tools to help them reason about, and make decisions, regarding Earth systems. Our workshop is a companion to our newly released book, “Bring the World to Your Classroom Using Google Geo Tools“. Feel free to bring your copy to follow along, take notes, etc.

Bring the World to Your Classroom will equip you to teach your students how to explore and create using Google Maps, Google My Maps, new Google Earth, Tour Builder, Tour Creator, and more! By the end of this session participants will explore hands-on with the variety of ways they can use inquiry, make student thinking visible, and use immersive experiences to listen, watch and tell stories.

• 10 min Welcome & Intro Why geo and geo-literacy defined overview of activities
• 15 min Exploration and examples of using Google Maps & My Maps in the inquiry process
• 30 min Participants create maps with My Maps
• 15 min Demonstration & exploration of new Google Earth for teaching and learning. Understand how to use Advanced Search to find KML files.
• 30 min Participants will create tours in Tour Builder, open in Google Earth and learn to export as KMLs.
• 15 min Experience immersive imagery for the classroom with Street View, YouTube 360º, Expeditions
• 30 min Participants will create their own story with immersive story with Tour Creator and/or Story Spheres.
• 5 min Closing and Wrap Up