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Sample Google Tour Creator Project
Featured Technology: Google Tour Creator
Tour Creator Application Ideas:
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Discover locations or settings from literature.
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Virtual visits to scientifically significant landforms, such as a volcano or the Galapagos islands.
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Create visual presentations describing sites of historically significant events.
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Create virtual stories using 360 images accompanied with text and/or narration.
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Virtual field trips to foreign countries accompanied with students' narrative descriptions.
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Solve environmental problems connected to real-life locations.
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Discover the sites of famous scientific discoveries / geological features.
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Explore biomes from around the world.
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Take a biographical tour of a person's life.
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Connecting any subject content to geolocations.
Featured Lesson: Chicago - City of the Century Tour
Lesson Description: This lesson integrates research, writing, and speaking with the goal of developing students’ critical thinking and organizational skills. As students conduct targeted research based on a particular geographic locations, they will demonstrate understanding through the synthesis of multiple sources and organization of materials by creating a virtual reality tour.
See the full lesson with accompanying resources below: