Be Familiar With Online Mapping

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• Covering Content: Geography, Technology
• Overall goal: Students will be familiar with online mapping tools and know how to use them appropriately.

Objective

• Students will use the map to find a place with searching tool, zoom in/out and street view function, the tool is optional.
• Students will find instruction how to embed an online map into their personal website and apply successfully, using online searching tool.

Procedure

• The teacher will ask students if they ever use an online mapping tool.
• Ask groups of student to play with some of them on the computer, such as find a city on the map, then suggest that Google Maps is the most popular online mapping tool and it's easy to use.

Procedures

• Ask students to find instructions to embed different online mapping tools into personal website.
• Let students practice directly on their own website.

Assessments

• Each group of student is familiar with at least one online mapping tool.
• Students can embed a map into their personal website.

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• Change for gifted students: be able to use direction tool on the map.
• Materials and Resources: - Comupters that connect to the Internet. - Online mapping tools: Google Maps, Bing Maps...

Standards

• Use models and simulations to explore complex systems.
• Locate, evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.
• Contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.