{"id":1988,"date":"2014-03-06T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T14:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2015-08-12T07:40:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T11:40:45","slug":"3rd-grade-explorers-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=1988","title":{"rendered":"3rd Grade Explorers Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-shot-2014-03-31-at-10.29.48-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-shot-2014-03-31-at-10.29.48-AM-300x185.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-03-31 at 10.29.48 AM\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-shot-2014-03-31-at-10.29.48-AM-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-shot-2014-03-31-at-10.29.48-AM.png 971w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Third graders in Ms. Remley&#8217;s class at Davis Elementary have been learning about the Explorers (SOL3.3).  Today I showed them how to make their own interactive maps using <a href=\"https:\/\/mapsengine.google.com\/map\/\">Google Maps Engine<\/a>. First I let them choose which explorer they wanted to research: Columbus, Cartier, Newport, or Ponce de Leon.  Next they placed a marker on the country that sponsored their trip.  I showed them how they could change the color of the marker or even the icon itself.  We also created a pop-up label for the marker.  The students wrote the name of the country and a sentence about the reasons for the voyage, then they added a picture to represent that country.  They placed another marker on the final destination and added a similar pop-up label to it.  They also drew a line to show the route the explorer took.  I showed them how to change the color and size of the line.  Finally they customized the look of their map and published it. I posted all their links to a Google Doc that you can take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Uh7_XQolVRY17s8bqe5qC78s9dmjkOjOJ1gh1_niK1A\/pub\">here<\/a>. <strong>UPDATE 3\/24\/16:<\/strong> I taught a very similar lesson in Ms. Marion&#8217;s class at Holladay, but this time we also rounded the length of the journey since they were learning how to round to the thousands place (SOL3.1b). You can see those <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/12i_Lml6boPhoWz5JZYyUWM16tlcChQ6QVWqYFnR_YRg\/pub\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third graders in Ms. Remley&#8217;s class at Davis Elementary have been learning about the Explorers (SOL3.3). Today I showed them how to make their own interactive maps using Google Maps Engine. First I let them choose which explorer they wanted to research: Columbus, Cartier, Newport, or Ponce de Leon. Next they placed a marker on&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=1988\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3rd","category-socialstudies","tag-googlemaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}