Haven't had much time to really explore this yet - just got an email from a friend about it - but it looks wonderful!
Google Lit Trips - an amazing FREE resource done by very dedicated and creative teachers. Using Google Earth, you can track great works of literature road trips with supplementary information that shows the real places referred to in books and provides lots more background. The creator describes it as traveling with the characters and three-dimensionalizing the journey. It's includes great literature from kindergarten age to adult level.
For example, as described in the creator's blog: "By using Google Earth, he and an associate (Matthew Hart) at Granada High School have actually plotted out three-dimension versions of the journeys made in The Grapes of Wrath, Candide, Macbeth, The Aeneid, and others novels on the site GoogleLit Trips. Jerome says the idea to do this "exploded" in his mind, and he feels these Google Maps projects can draw the students into really studying literature in a way that the authors would have wanted. For example, in The Grapes of Wrath, you can see the flatness of the land, watch a video of a dust storm, see photos or art of the time period, and read chapter notes and questions from the teacher.
In addition to the Google Earth file that has been created for each book, there are short podcasts and screen shots for each one that give a brief description of what you will find when you open it in Google Earth." Lillian
Google Lit Trips - an amazing FREE resource done by very dedicated and creative teachers. Using Google Earth, you can track great works of literature road trips with supplementary information that shows the real places referred to in books and provides lots more background. The creator describes it as traveling with the characters and three-dimensionalizing the journey. It's includes great literature from kindergarten age to adult level.
For example, as described in the creator's blog: "By using Google Earth, he and an associate (Matthew Hart) at Granada High School have actually plotted out three-dimension versions of the journeys made in The Grapes of Wrath, Candide, Macbeth, The Aeneid, and others novels on the site GoogleLit Trips. Jerome says the idea to do this "exploded" in his mind, and he feels these Google Maps projects can draw the students into really studying literature in a way that the authors would have wanted. For example, in The Grapes of Wrath, you can see the flatness of the land, watch a video of a dust storm, see photos or art of the time period, and read chapter notes and questions from the teacher.
In addition to the Google Earth file that has been created for each book, there are short podcasts and screen shots for each one that give a brief description of what you will find when you open it in Google Earth." Lillian
