Tag: Google Maps

Pokemon Go and Geography with Google maps

Pokemon Go and geography lesson without using the Pokemon app

If you want to engage and motivate – there’s nothing better than Pokemon Go at the moment. And when you connect an engagement tool with something meaningful – you get some super effective teaching and learning!

In this post we show you the exact steps needed to make a Pokemon map using Google maps and connect this to a history and or geography lesson for students.

NOTE: If you are concerned about security and the Pokemon App, we don’t use the Pokemon game to develop this lesson – you just use the images off the internet.

Resources Galore: Using Google Maps For Virtual Field Trips

One of the greatest ways we can use Google Maps is to take our students on virtual field trips. For several years, we have been able to use Street View in Google Maps to walk down streets, look at monuments and create customised field trips without having to leave the classroom.   Recently, Google started

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