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Exploring time ...

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When elementary children are celebrating International Week, each child shows the location of their home city plus photos!

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Model UNited Nations, students can important differnent with different relations with other countries. Identify where the issues are.

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This would be great for our grade 3 neighborhood Phu My Hung project on water.

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Use with students the first few weeks of school with the class so that they can "map out" and share with the whole class where they are from and share some interesting things about their home country. Builds community,

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I will definitely use this on our next research unit in grade 4.

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This is a great tool for students to learn more about the setting of the text being studied.

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Using Google Maps to better understand the human conflict in "Number The Stars"

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Using Google Maps to better understand the human conflict in "Number The Stars"

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Given the interest my grade 7 students have shown in reading chapters 1-3 in NTS, this app could be helpful for us in looking at the geographical realities of the war and the ultimate escape for the Rosens.

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During the first week, have students pin their home town or home country and write about where they come from, how it shaped them, favourite memories from there, etc.

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Keep parents informed on overnight trips so they know where their children are and what they're up to.

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This is not for students, but faculty at an international school could pin favourite restaurants and services on a shared map.

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Students can pin important historical events related to movements, eras, wars, etc. They could do exam review collaboratively by each being responsible for certain events or concepts.

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Google's Maps Engine gives teachers and students a great, user-friendly tool for creating sophisticated customized maps.

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Investigate fitness clubs within a city and map the distances between them.

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I'll definitely be using Google Maps Engine Lite with my students for our next writing task. It's a great way to get students to work on their research skills as well their computer skills.

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Great way for the students to increase their knowledge of the world that we live in.

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Very cool way to make connections between what you are learning in class and the world. We could try pinning different places where animals the animals we are studying live, especially for our endangered animals unit.

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My students can connect with their penpals in Canada and map out distances to their homes

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Lots of possibilities. Have students create an research assignment about their family, neighbourhood, city, or country.

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Have students explain best places to visit to penpals.

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I could see myself using collabmap for our language unit on forces acting on structures. Students could research a structure in Ho Chi Minh, map it, and then write a short report about forces that act on the structure.

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A great way for students to document and reflect on their school trip. Rather than writing in a journal they could take pictures and automatically upload from their phones to the map and attach their reflections of the day to the location(s) we visited.

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Have students map out their favourite place in the world as a start of the year icebreaker.

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Watch this teacher explain how she brings history to life with Google Maps Engine:

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Google's Maps Engine gives teachers and students a great, user-friendly tool for creating sophisticated customized maps.

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Pin spots for your younger students who can then add photos and videos to the pin.

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Older students can use the line drawing tool to map out an actual itinerary within a country.

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Meet up with another class in a different country and use Google Maps Engine Lite to collaborate on a project that defies borders and time zones!