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Does tool require Sign-in?
Google maps does not require a sign-in. Community Walk does require a login.

==Description of Tool: Google maps is a great way to take virtual field trips in your lesson. An idea of this would be to have students learning about Washington D.C. use google maps to tour the Mall and the building, memorials that surround them.==

==How does this tool apply to your curricular area? Provides visual aids to accompany the lesson, which lends context. One ideal would be to allow students to create their own map comparing historical sites to the modern representations. This is a great way of not only exploring geography but also defines the idea of change over time.==

==Where does tool fit in Digital Bloom's and why? Google maps really fits into all levels of digital blooms. Google maps enables students to make their own maps which is creating. Evaluation comes from layering the maps over one another. The layering feature allows students to analyze the idea of change over time by comparing layers of different time periods. By using real images of geographic locations, students are appliying lecture and reading materials to the real world. Remembering and understanding will come naturally to this process having used this in so many different forms the students will affectivly tie this to previous memory locking the information into long term memory.==

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