Unit 2 of our Geography class focuses on agriculture in Quebec. I asked the students to create a website summarizing the main ideas.
The students used Weebly to create their sites. Weebly utilizes a drag-and-drop interface that makes web-authoring relatively easy.
We used Google Maps to embed a customized map showing the agricultural areas of Quebec. We used Chartle to create embedded charts.
Here is one student’s website:
There is a fun online game called, “Monopoly City Streets.”
Utilizing Google Maps, the game allows players to buy streets in the real world and develop them.
I showed the game to my Geography students and they really liked it. They quickly bought up all the streets in town.
Today, the students used Quikmaps to plot the routes of some famous explorers.
Quikmaps allows users to draw on Google Maps. The embedding features are nice. You can easily resize the embedded map and select its starting focus.
Furthermore, it is not necessary to create an account.
They used the website Symbolya to create maps, which they then embedded on their blogs. Here is a student exemplar.
Symbolya lets users create place marks on a Google map. They have a collection of different icons that can be utilized. Nice.
