Settings of television shows.
Movie locations.
The locations of preferred sports teams and their rivals.
Settings of favorite books.
Birthplaces of stars.
Origins of dog types.
Areas of city names in songs.
Locations in location jokes (check here and here for some enjoyable, clean geography jokes).
All the places checked out in one season of The Amazing Race.
List of dream vacation destinations.

Creating a map with one of these tools can help trainees develop a much better contextual understanding of where places are in the world. Instead of just hearing Friday Night Lights was loosely based on Odessa, Texas they can actually see where in the world Odessa, Texas remains in relation to other places they may have or understand become aware of. Continuing from that example, here are 10 enjoyable things for trainees to map.

Thats just one of lots of tools that students can use to create multimedia maps. Creating a map with one of these tools can assist trainees develop a much better contextual understanding of where places are in the world. Rather than just hearing Friday Night Lights was loosely based on Odessa, Texas they can actually see where in the world Odessa, Texas is in relation to other locations they might have or understand heard of. Continuing from that example, here are 10 enjoyable things for trainees to map.

For more concepts about using Google Earth in your class, take a look at my
All over the world With Google Earth activity or enlist in
A Crash Course in Google Earth & & Maps for Social Studies..

Last week I released a video about
how to tape-record a Google Earth trip in your web internet browser. Thats just one of lots of tools that students can use to produce multimedia maps. A couple of other options consist of using
Scribble Maps,
Padlet maps, and
Googles My Maps tool.