Google Historical Voyages and Historical Events

What historical event, explorer, voyage, or local history would you like to share with other schools? Have you studied the settlement history of your own community? Have you studied about your state or country and historical events that helped shape it?

This site is dedicated to the explorers, voyages, events, and historical backgrounds of countries throughout the World. We'd like to hear about famous explorers who surveyed or traveled through your community long ago. Perhaps you'd like to tell us about historical events that shaped your locale or region. You may wish to report about a catastrophic event in your area. Or, you may want to tell us how your community was founded, its historical background, early settlers. Every community, every town, every country has a past, and we'd like to hear about yours.

This project is open to schools all over the World. We invite a "global community" of schools to share this site with us. We can learn about each other's countries as we contribute to this site.

Feel free to explore the projects that have been contributed by other schools. See how they are designed.

We would like to suggest that you "explore" using WEB 2.0 tools for your project. There are many tools available for teachers and students to use. Clusters of tools can work together to enhance lessons and offer students a variety of leaning tools as they work through the lessons.

Some Final Thoughts:

The goal is to collect projects from schools all over the World.
Design a WEB page we can link to. "Host" your project on that WEB page. Link to your resources off that page. If you create a Google SITE or publish a Google DOC, link to it. If you create a Google Earth historical trip with pins and text, link to the kml file. We will link to your page and write a brief description of your project.
You might concentrate on using one "main" Google tool such as Google Earth or Google Maps or Google Presentation. That might be the final product/project you share with other schools.
The "hub" of the project might be a Google Earth or Google Map of your historical project. As students click through the pins on the maps, they might be learning or answering questions. It depends on how you'd like to set up your project. Other tools can be used as students "discover" or research the history of their selected topics.
You might find other Google tools useful such as Blogger or Docs or Sites or Notebook as students collaborate and learn. Students can use these tools as they discover information, engage in peer-to-peer learning, and design their projects.
School projects on historical themes might be better suited to use Google Earth or Google Maps to plot events and places.
When contacting Carol LaRow, please indicate which project category you will be doing. We will host your project on the appropriate page of this site.
Fill out the FORM to give us basic information about your school and your project.