Guide Classroom mapping
Google Maps for teachers: prepare the map, then teach the lesson
Prepare a classroom mapping lesson with Maps, My Maps or Earth, including a sample caption, lesson sequence, school access and accessible alternatives.
The task collection
Lessons & projects
Turn a question about places into a lesson or a student map project.
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Choose your next step
Follow a teaching task from choosing a lesson to building, sharing and discussing student work.
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Find the workflow you need.
8 guides, organised by task.
Choose a tool and plan a lesson
Teacher workflow, tool comparison and lesson ideas.
Guide Classroom mapping
Google Maps vs My Maps vs Google Earth: Which Should You Use?
Compare directions, custom layers and globe projects through one trip-planning example, with sharing advice and My Maps-to-Earth file options.
Guide Classroom mapping
Mapping lesson ideas you can teach without a GIS degree
Concrete mapping lesson ideas for geography, history, science, math, literature, and interdisciplinary projects, written so a teacher can adapt them this week.
Make and share student work
Project process, examples and sharing with students.
Guide Classroom mapping
Student map projects: from a research question to a finished map
Build a student research map with a focused question, source notes, useful captions, a clear conclusion and a practical assessment rubric.
Guide Classroom mapping
Student Google Treks Examples for Science, Math, Language Arts, and Art
Adapt 12 classroom map-project models across science, math, language arts and art, with research questions, sources, privacy checks and final products.
Guide Google My Maps
How to Share a Google My Map With Students
Choose view-only or named editors, send a My Maps link or Classroom attachment, and check wrong-account and school-sharing blocks before making a map public.
Guide Classroom mapping
A Family Weekend with Google Maps, My Maps and Earth
Follow a fictional family's weekend trip, from routes and shared stops to offline backups, privacy choices and a child's school map project.
Support research and study
Open the broader digital-learning workflow.
Keep exploring
A useful next direction.
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