Googlemaps.com

Googlemaps is a very useful tool, used most often in traveling or finding businesses.

AND it can be useful in the classroom as well.

After the group presented in class today using googlemaps as a way to research a field trip, I brainstormed other ways I could use it in my own classroom.

What about teaching a unit on our town's history?  We could look up various places on Googlemaps, such as our courthouse, police department, city parks, and so on.  We could then similarly plan a day trip or even a morning trip and catch as much history as our town could provide!

And away we go!