Love the capabilities of this app and how user friendly it is.
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Community Review for Google Maps
Jessica M.
Hite Saunders Elementary School
Huntington WV, US
My Take
I love using this app with students. It makes maps totally relevant for middle school.
How I Use It
My students learned how to map their destinations. They also learned how to look at and compare written instruction to visual. Students learned how to find locations by address and by general land marks.
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Malati R.
July 21, 2015
Virtual Road Trip
I think that the current version allows for some catchy classroom integration. This app allows for applications at all levels of the SAMR model. As described above, it would probably be Augmentation. To achieve redefinition, I would modify the current lesson to have students create a shared map and include relevant locations.
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Jeremy B.
Teacher
Gull Lake Community Schools
Richland, MI
November 28, 2014
Easy and free for locations and navigation
This is an easy to use tool that is free and accessible anywhere as long as there is an internet connection. I have removed every map in my classroom as they are not up to date, but Google Maps is always up to date. It is free, informative, interactive, and easy to use. Students enjoy it!
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Tina H.
Commerce Township, MI
August 26, 2014
Where is it?
Overall, it is a fantastic tool to help students identify the location of places that are being studied. The ability to instantly find a place with a search mechanism makes it useful to show a location instantly when learning about events of the past, locations of significance, or viewing geographical landforms form above. Students love these dynamic maps!
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