World History
After my in-service yesterday I was contacted by one of the teachers who pointed out that drawing maps (as opposed to labeling ones given to you) is a better way to learn. My kids always have to label two maps (once at the beginning of the unit and once for review). Now I am going to change that to they have to free hand draw it in Google Drawing the second time. Above is a video that shows you how. Basically you go to "insert," "line" and "scribble" to be able to do it (see picture above). I partially drew above by splitting the computer screen and laying my drawing and the picture side by side.
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Every year about now I start wondering what I want to do the first week of school. On the first day I actually spend most of the time just getting to know my students and perhaps giving them a small overview of the class. But on the second class...
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My students draw a lot of maps in Google Drawings, but if you want to do more than just labeling, you might want to consider Scribble Maps. Scribble maps allows you to put pins in locations, but then to add descriptions as well as Youtube video...
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World History
Drawing Maps
- First Week Map Exercise
Every year about now I start wondering what I want to do the first week of school. On the first day I actually spend most of the time just getting to know my students and perhaps giving them a small overview of the class. But on the second class...
- Scribble Maps
My students draw a lot of maps in Google Drawings, but if you want to do more than just labeling, you might want to consider Scribble Maps. Scribble maps allows you to put pins in locations, but then to add descriptions as well as Youtube video...
- Make A Map Using Google Drawing
Today my students learned how to illustrate a map using Google Drawing. Here are the instructions I gave them. The next map we do (China) will include the freehand drawing of the entire map (see above as well). ...
- Most Hit Sites In September
Hard to believe the first month of school is already over. As always thanks for coming to this blog page. We had 42,000+ page views (including the US and government blogs) last month including 14,000 on this site alone The top three...
- Blank Maps
Adding on to George's post, one of the first sites I wrote about on this blog was about outline maps which you can print out and have your kids write on. They are political and physical. No, wait, don't print them out! Now you...