Time to revisit and old favorite. Making a Google Map with your own places on it. Anything with a location can be put on a map! Here is how to do it, we will come up with examples at the end. Believe it or not there are a few ways to do it and there are differences!
BE SURE YOU ARE LOGGED IN TO THE CORRECT G-MAIL ACCOUNT! School or Personal?!
BE SURE YOU ARE LOGGED IN TO THE CORRECT G-MAIL ACCOUNT! School or Personal?!
Great for personal use
|
You can create a list in maps. Much like you would for a list of favorite restaurants. Go to maps. Click on ETC. (3 dots or bars). Click on "Your Places." Click the blue link for "+New List". Give it a name and use the "+Add A Place" button. Pretty easy and straight forward. But not very detailed.
Restaurants, Cool stores, Friends houses, Those places you want to go to sometime... |
|
BETTER - easy enough for one person to add places.
|
You can also create your own map (not just a list on a map) by adding places and layers! think Places I HAVE visited, and places I WANT to visit. Each a layer.
Create the map, search for a place. Add to map. Click the icons at the bottom to add "Content" or a description. Level up and click the ETC dots and open the data table to add more. |
|
BEST - for student input and an assignment!
But wait! Even better - Have your students do the hard work of getting the data! And answer some questions related to places. Create a form with questions for students to answers. Include a PLACE that can be mapped. Ask a few more questions. That form will create a spreadsheet. That spreadsheet can fill your map! Then you present it to the class.
Manage your maps
How to get rid of any old ones or shared with you ones...
What are some ideas for students work? (Always the 5 W's)
- Places a character in a book visited and what they did there.
- Specific war battles
- Art collections and the museums they are in.
- Favorite or best sport teams..
- Famous Scientist/Mathematician hometowns
- The travels of an explorer.
- let your imagine go!
I keep thinking of it as a form for students to fill out with the data you want and YOU create the map. BUT students could do this on their own too. I WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY to show them how.
