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What is GeoGuessr and How Does it Work for Teachers? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 8 May 23

GeoGuessr gamifies geography to make map based learning extra engaging for students.

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Google Earth Lesson Plan

By Stephanie Smith Budhai, Ph.D. published 7 September 21

This Google Earth lesson plan is designed to provide educators with an avenue for integrating the edtech tool into their instruction

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National Geographic Kids: Fantastic Resource for Students to Explore Life on Earth

By TL Editors published 27 January 20

National Geographic Kids provides a great many high-quality visual learning tools.

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Screenshot: Expeditions We Love from National Geographic

Young Explorers Create and Share Expeditions With National Geographic Site

By TL Editors last updated 25 January 20

National Geographic's Open Explorer site is a digital field journal where explorers of the world (or just their backyard) create and go on expeditions and share their stories along the way.

The Earth floats above an open hand in front of a blackboard with chalk drawings

Did they just add tour creation to web-based Google Earth? Yes. Yes, they did.

By Glenn Wiebe published 2 January 20

Google finally added the ability to generate tours with some pretty sweet features.

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Outline of continental US is filled with weathered stars and stripes

Old or New, Maps are Cool

By Glenn Wiebe published 11 November 19

I love the ability of digitized maps to allow access to all sorts of data in all sorts of very visual ways.

Addictive Puzzler Asks Kids to ID Locations From Google Maps

By TL Editors published 14 October 19

Geoguessr is an addictive puzzler (with version on the web as well as Android and iOS apps) that task students with guessing the location of Google Street View images from around the world.