Use Google Maps to find local business information, directions, and street-level imagery around the world.
Google Maps provides users with powerful, easy to use mapping technology.
Street View - Street View in Google Maps enables you to explore street-level imagery around the world, showing you places as if you were there in person. You can use Street View to check out a historical site, or plan a virtual field trip across the globe.
Different views - Earth view enables you to explore 3D imagery and terrain from Google Earth directly in your browser. You can also view satellite imagery in Google Maps.
Google Maps Introduction
How to create a "My Map" in Google Maps
Application for Education
- Students can work collaboratively on a map and each person would be responsible for creating and editing their own layers.
- This tool can be used in many curricular areas such as:
- ELA - literature trips for each chapter of a book
- Social Studies - record an event like the U.S. Civil War with a different layer for each year of the war
- Many more ideas, including science, math, and design can be found at Practical Ed Tech
For a list of all Apps and Extensions that have been whitelisted in Parkway, visit https://goo.gl/sUpBKk.
