Goggle Maps

The assignment was to chose a city and a topic and create a map. I chose New York City! One of my preschoolers visited New York City, last Spring with his family on Spring Break. When he came back he he shared all his experiences with his classmates. He explored several skyscrapers, bridges, train stations and the Statue of Liberty. Before, he left for his trip the class was exploring skyscrappers, buildings and talking about construction workers, tools and their machines. The class was so excited to hear and see all his photos from Face book. Our project about Skyscrapers/Buildings turned into a project about trains and train stations.

As a preschool teacher, the first thing I did to complete this assignment was to create a web of ideas, about New York City!

The assignment also asked to pick a topic but my topic is New York City.  I could just pick skyscrapers, trains, zoo, Islands , or bridges, but New York City is a topic in it's self. No one goes to New York to just tour one topic! New York City is one of the most popular cities in the United States!  

Since, it is a preschool class if we were to take a real field trip there, the parents would have to accompany the children. The children would love a virtual tour of New York, cause when you click on an area on the map it shows the Satellite and Earth image (actual picture).

Map of New York City

I will use this tool in my classroom, help enhance my student's learning.

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Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity-1b- because it is a digital tool, that can allow teachers and students to use a digital tool to take a virtual tour of a city, without leaving the classroom.

Model Digital Age Work and Learning- 3b- students, peers, parents and community members can use this digital tool to support student success by creating a virtual tour of a city that they might be focusing on in the classroom or at a after-school community project. Any one could use this tool to create a virtual tour of a city to become more familiar with if and to learn what how to use maps.