4th Grade Revolutionary War Maps
Fourth graders at Davis Elementary have been learning about the Revolutionary War (VS.5), so today students in Ms. White’s class created Revolutionary War maps using My Google Maps. First I posted a link to My Google Maps on Google Classroom. With My Google Maps, anyone with a Google account can create their own customized maps. I showed the students how to add a title and change the way the base map looks (click the arrow next to “Base Map”). Next we added markers to the places where important events and battles occurred. The students wrote a description of each event and added a photo (click the camera button). Then I showed them how to customize the marker icon with an image (click the paint bucket, click “Custom Icon,” and do a Google image search). Finally, we clicked the “Share” button, changed the settings so that the map could be seen by anyone with the link, and copied and pasted the link to Google classroom. You can see all the students’ maps here.