Title: 10 Ways to Use Google Maps in the Classroom – The Thinking Stick
Headings: 10 Ways to Use Google Maps in the Classroom
10 Ways to Use Google Maps in the Classroom
1. Latitude Longitude Scavenger Hunts
Google Sightseeing blog: View some of the great images from around the world
2. Earth Picker
Yes…Google does have a whole site dedicated to using maps in education
3. Smarty Pins
Create your own mapping game
4. My Maps
5 ways to use My Maps in the classroom
5. Video Tour
Want some training? No problem Google has you covered!
6. Create a map for your community
See how others are using Google Maps to help their communities
7. Create a route
Keep up with what Google is doing with maps
8. Measure Distance and Area
Using Google Maps in math class
9. See your World in 3D
40+ Ways to Use Google Earth and Maps in the classroom
10. Mobile Maps
Ideas of how to use My Maps on mobile devices

Content: My Maps
My Maps is simply amazing. So much so that it is used in the next six ways to use Google Maps. My Maps allows you to create maps not just read and use them. All of a sudden we become digital map creators and the possibilities become endless. 5 ways to use My Maps in the classroom
5. Video Tour
Using My Maps students could add markers along a route of say….. Ferdinand Magellan. Students could create videos, or record their voice and actually embed them into a marker for others to learn about what happened at that spot on his travels. Now….because this is Google…..of course you can share a map just like you can a Google Doc. Now you have 10 students working on 10 different explorers all of them adding their routes and videos to the same map. From there we can start to see patterns of routes, patterns of where explorers were going and what they were trying to do.