Human Tech - Vi First-Class Google Mapping Tools To Educate Students Geo-Literacy

Here is a collection of some really skilful mapping tools nosotros curated from Google globe Outreach. You tin operate these tools alongside your students to prepare their geo-literacy. According to National Geographic, geo-literacy 'is the might to operate geographic agreement together with geographic reasoning to brand far-reaching decisions’. The educational forcefulness of Geo-literacy is that it raises students geographic awareness, increases their determination making,   and helps them cultivate grounded agreement of the geographic public they are living in, an agreement that volition assist inwards the protection of natural together with cultural resources together with Pb to  improvement of the overall quality of life on this planet. Some of the activities students volition hold out able to perform using these tools include: create fashionable together with customized maps, explore the world’s geography inwards 3D, narrate together with part contextualized stories based on specific locations on map using photos together with videos, explore places from all only about the public through 360-degree street aeroplane imagery, issue ‘a Google globe layer (KML or KMZ file) straight from a Google Spreadsheet’… together with many more. Each of these tools is linked to a tutorial page where yous volition acquire to acquire to a greater extent than close how to operate them.

1- Google My Maps

‘Google My Maps allows yous to create fashionable custom maps to part together with issue online. You tin add together lines, shapes, or places on the map, or import information from Google Drive spreadsheets, every bit good every bit Excel, CSV together with KML files.’

2- Tour Builder 

‘Tour Builder lets yous say stories inwards their geographic context on the spider web using the Google globe Plug-in. You tin easily create an immersive story alongside places, photos together with videos together with part it alongside your friends.’

3 - Google globe Engine

‘Google globe Engine brings together the world's satellite imagery together with makes it available online alongside tools for scientists, independent researchers together with nations, allowing them to mine this massive warehouse of information to uncovering changes, map trends together with quantify differences on the earth's surface.’

4- Google Street View

‘Google Maps alongside Street View lets yous explore places only about the public through 360-degree street-level imagery. You tin accept a hold off at restaurants, conception your adjacent trip or fifty-fifty see the Amazon!’

5- Google Earth

‘Google globe lets yous wing anywhere on globe to sentiment satellite imagery, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies inwards outer infinite to the canyons of the ocean. You tin explore rich geographical content, relieve your toured places together with part alongside others inwards this gratis desktop together with mobile application. Google globe Pro provides additional capabilities such every bit Movie Maker together with GIS information import capability.’

6- Spreadsheet Mapper

‘Spreadsheet Mapper is a tool built past times Google globe Outreach to allow yous dynamically issue a Google globe layer (KML or KMZ file) straight from a Google Spreadsheet. Create dissimilar balloon templates for dissimilar parts of your dataset inwards Spreadsheet Mapper.’