Using Google Maps as a part of the learning design

Google Maps provides very similar teaching tools as Google Earth. When students use Google Maps as a learning tool, they will have the ability to instantly pinpoint the origins of their subject, and view this at street level. For example, students in the early years curriculum guidelines are developing an awareness about their communal supporters that surround them, such as the fire brigade, police, ambulance, hospital and/or their extended family. Google Maps will help each students visually identify the exact locations of these places in accordance to either their school, home, local shopping centre and/or friends houses. Students can also click on where they are going at street level and absorb the image of the building they are researching. In other words, if it is the police station preps have searched for then they can click on the building to obtain a digital image of the front of that building. This tool can provide a variety of examples similar to this one at all age levels. The advantage of Google Maps is that it provides spatial awareness in current meaningful real life standards.