Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median and Mode
GWE Google Maps
1. Google Maps
Jon Corippo
Google Certified Teacher GTAWA 2011
2. Ways to use Google Maps
1 Geography
2 Reading and Literature
3 History
4 School Events
5 Sharing your humanity
3. Google Maps
Great technical training from Google
http://www.google.com/
educators/p_maps.html
4. Google Maps
There are cool Maps ‘mashups”
http://earthquakes.tafoni.net/
5. Google Maps
You can use Google Maps to teach the 5 themes of Geography
http://montessorimuddle.org/2010/09/27/google-maps-zooming-in-to-the-5-themes-of-geography/
15. Google Maps
Possible Elements of a good Lit CIRCLE Trip
A book or story with multiple locations
A summary of events for each location
Require two or three
A photo of the place
and allow choice of
two or three. A question or two
A character map
Key quotes
Examples of literary devices
16. Google Maps Could we not do this with history?
The Odyssey
17. Google Maps Could we not do this with history?
Battle Lists at:
Or use Timelines
47. Google Maps
You can use the line tool as well,
Or the “Follow road” line.
48. Google Maps
Why not do
this in
Google Earth?
Google Earth
has no Rich Text
option, which
is where we
are putting the
academic parts
of the lessons!
58. Google Maps
This is a great way to welcome your
students to your class each year.
Have them make a tour for
you, as way to get to know
them and introduce tech to
your back school activities.
59. Google Maps
Google Maps and Tours can be:
Engaging, fast and very academic
Supportive of almost every subject and grade level
A great way to make any subject visual, divergent
in nature and yet structured.