Category Archives: GoogleMaps
4th Grade Revolutionary War Maps
Fourth graders at Davis Elementary have been learning about the Revolutionary War (VS.5), so today students in Ms. White’s class created Revolutionary War maps using My Google Maps. First I posted a link to My Google Maps on Google Classroom. With My Google Maps, anyone with a Google account can create their own customized maps….
2nd Grade U.S. Geography Maps
Second graders at Davis Elementary are learning about map skills and United States geography (SOL2.5). Today students in Ms. McGovern’s class created their own customized Google maps showing the important features like the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River, and the Rocky Mountains. First I posted a link to My Google Maps on Google classroom. The…
5th Grade Southeast Region Maps
Fifth graders at Davis Elementary have been learning about the southeast region of the United States, so today, students in Ms. Bailey’s class created interactive maps of the southeast region. First I posted a link to My Google Maps on Google classroom. My Google maps allows you to create and save your own maps. The…
End the Mapathy at EdTech 2015
Today I presented at the EdTech 2015 conference at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond. My presentation was called “End the Mapathy,” and it was all about the amazing things you can do with maps. First I focused on Google Maps. I showed how you can create your own maps which are automatically saved to […] Continue reading
3rd Grade Precipitation Probability Maps
Third graders at Holladay Elementary have been learning about the water cycle in science (SOL3.9) and probability in math (SOL3.18), so today Ms. Cowart’s students created precipitation probability maps. First we reviewed how probability relates to weather forecasting, and after so many snow days in February, the students were expert weathermen! We discussed the terms […] Continue reading
5th Grade Northeast Region Thinglinks
Fifth graders at Davis Elementary have been learning about the northeast region of the United States (NE1.2, NE2.2), and they have been learning how to write to inform (SOL5.7). So today, students in Ms. Bailey’s class created interactive Thinglink maps highlighting some of the interesting places in each state. First we needed to get a […] Continue reading
4th Grade Multiplication Maps
Fourth graders at Holladay Elementary have been learning about life in colonial Virginia and the Revolutionary War (VS.4,VS.5), and they’ve been learning how to multiply two digit numbers in math (SOL4.4), so today we made multiplication maps about colonial Virginia in Ms. Ficor’s class. First we discussed which major cities existed during this time (Norfolk, […] Continue reading
3rd Grade Parthenon Perimeter
Third graders at Davis Elementary have been learning about the architecture of the ancient Greeks (SOL3.1) and how to identify Greece on a map (SOL3.4). They have also been studying perimeter in math (SOL3.9d). So today students in Ms. Eller’s class found the Parthenon using Google maps and calculated the perimeter of it. First we […] Continue reading
5th Grade Elapsed Time Maps
Fifth graders at Laburnum Elementary have been learning how to find elapsed time in math (SOL5.10), and they’ve been studying the southeast region of the United States in social studies (SE1.2). So today students in Ms. Conway’s class created elapsed time word problems using Google maps. First they signed into their Google accounts and I […] Continue reading
3rd Grade Descriptive Habitat Maps
Third graders at Varina Elementary have been learning about habitats and ecosystems in science (SOL3.6) and writing good descriptive details in Language Arts (SOL3.9), so today we created descriptive habitat maps in Ms. Wells’ and Ms. Leo’s classes. First we practiced writing descriptive sentences about our weekend, posting our ideas to the Google classroom page. […] Continue reading
