{"id":2813,"date":"2016-03-23T16:07:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T20:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2016-08-15T16:34:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T20:34:24","slug":"4th-grade-virginia-products-industries-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=2813","title":{"rendered":"4th Grade Virginia Products &#038; Industries Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?attachment_id=2814\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2814\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Map-300x173.png\" alt=\"Map\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Map-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Map.png 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Fourth graders at Laburnum Elementary have been learning about Virginia products and industries (VS.10b), so today students in Ms. Butler&#8217;s class created interactive Virginia product maps. First I posted a link on Google classroom to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/\">my Google Maps<\/a> and a map layer (KML file) showing the different regions of Virginia (you can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/a\/henrico.k12.va.us\/file\/d\/0BykgMgzq4lmwRl9YRm9oMXdhaWc\/view\">here<\/a>).  One of the nice things about creating Google maps is that you can upload map layers that other people have created, which saves a lot of time. Students accessed My Google Maps, then clicked &#8220;Add A Layer,&#8221; and they uploaded the KML file that they had downloaded. Next I showed them how to add markers to the different regions where they wanted to show a product or industry. I also demonstrated how to add a custom icon (click the paint bucket > More icons > Custom icon), and explained that transparent PNG files would look best since they don&#8217;t have a background. Students continued adding product icons to their maps with descriptions of each. When they finished, we shared our maps to &#8220;Anyone with the link&#8221; and posted the links to Google classroom. You can see them all <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1WoiEHf0REvC7E5UHes9bRYtXDB9jwj_gN7sIT5U5AWQ\/pub\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth graders at Laburnum Elementary have been learning about Virginia products and industries (VS.10b), so today students in Ms. Butler&#8217;s class created interactive Virginia product maps. First I posted a link on Google classroom to my Google Maps and a map layer (KML file) showing the different regions of Virginia (you can download it here)&#8230;. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=2813\">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":[6,13],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4th","category-socialstudies","tag-googlemaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","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=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}