Just finished watching the tutorial on the Google Earth Lit Trip, a very creative idea to tie together books, geography, and history. As I was watching, it turned out to be a little more complicated than I thought (html code), but doable. There is a lit trip for Bud Not Buddy that I'm going to share with my 6th grade teachers, as that is the next book in the CC module. Another book that I could use it for is Magic Tree House - Hour of the Olympics. I read that to my second graders last year during that module and they loved it. It will give them a real sense of distance between the US and Greece. Our school has a summer tech camp and one of the volunteers taught the students how to use the push pins on Google Earth and calculate the distance between the two points. Kids liked it. It was for grades 3-5.
I also loved the tool to make a QR Quiz. If I can get access to multiple iPads to use in my library, I would like to make one for my 3rd graders for when I teach call numbers and the Dewey Decimal System.
