When I was watching this Podcast, I saw this and loved it! It's totally helpful for seeing what's super important and what is the eye-catching items on your maps that grab kids attention! Although this is not helpful for the students directly. This will help me organize my brain so that I can make my maps and displays the most engaging and useful.
I think this would be an awesome tool for our Heroes in the community unit! We are touring and traveling main street in our community at the end of the year. I think it would be awesome to have a map to give each student that would "Lead us" through our tour.
"Where is the Library on our journey? Where will we end up last?"
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| Here I was working through some steps to make a Main Street map for our 1st grade class to follow along with on our Community Tour. This could potentially become a helpful tool! |
I typed in my location, and then followed the directions to "search for places" nearby. I searched my school and then businesses and Main Street. This brought up different stops on our tour- this is already helpful!
Abbie-
ReplyDeleteGreat connections between the podcast and mapping. "Our Community" is certainly a wonderful way to map. Elements such as "Heros in Our Community" are always appreciated by the community. I have found that sharing maps such as these with the greater community develops a nice connection between school and town. Does each student choose a hero to study? If so, a map is a great way to pull all student work together. A placemark on the map may serve merely as a link out to an individual student project-- and interview with a hero perhaps. Wonderful start-- I hope this takes you somewhere exciting!
See you Friday,
Allison
Abbie,
ReplyDeleteI love this idea! Allowing students to utilize a map and in a way lead the group on the trip would encourage them to really take ownership over their learning. Nice work!!