GeoGuesser

 http://www.geoguessr.com/  

A game that invites you to guess the location in the world based on a Google Street View 


Classroom idea:  As a way to expose students to looking for viual clues for context, this is a fun game.

Trulia Hindsight

Trulia Hindsight http://hindsight.trulia.com/map/#lat=38.342&lon=-95.273&zoom=4&mix=0.500

  Here is a site that allows visualization of how cities actually developed.  

Classroom ideas -  I can see using this in history and literature classes. How developed was Long Island in Jay Gatsby’s day? What was pre-war Los Angeles like?

360 Cities

360 Cities http://www.360cities.net/

Great source for panoramic views of cities and sights
Yellowstone Old Faithful Inn External View in USA A nice feature is when embedded for noncommercial use, no ads are attached.

Lesson idea: I like the idea of exploring why a city is where it is. This tool can give a visual to rivers, mountains, etc.that contributed to a city's founding or growth.

Going with Geography

Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers is a great blog to read. I get so many ideas and inspirations from his posts. He wrote about Geo Coded Art recently. I liked this tool for showing landscape paintings and the actual inspiration for them via Google maps
Classroom ideas:
1)A class studying a country could use this gathering of art and geography to personalize the study.

2) Create your own class database of Geo-coded studies. Chemistry classes doing element study could Geo-code the elements.

Embedding Google maps

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Classroom idea Here is a little idea that could add interest- embed a Google Map in your wiki of project instructions. If you are studying Chinua Achebe maybe a simple Google map of Nigeria with satellite image . Just look for "link to page" in top right corner of Google maps. Thanks to Joyce Valenza for this idea. Here I show two Butte Montana institutions - Pork Chop John Sandwhich Shops. Don't leave Butte without trying them! The one marked A is more authentic!