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ScribbleMaps - Scribble Maps
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Scribble Maps is a browser-based mapping tool that lets users create personalized maps with markers, text labels, lines, shapes, and images. Use it to highlight geographic features,...more
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Scribble Maps is a browser-based mapping tool that lets users create personalized maps with markers, text labels, lines, shapes, and images. Use it to highlight geographic features, trace journeys, identify important locations, or illustrate connections between places. Search for a starting location, choose an available map style, and customize your annotations using color and styling tools. You can begin without registering, although saving and feature limits apply. The free plan includes basic mapping tools and allows up to five lifetime saved maps; additional tools, privacy controls, and export options require a paid plan. Share completed maps through view-only links, or use separate edit links when collaborating. Maps can also be embedded in websites, and supported export options allow map data to be used in other applications, including Google Earth and Google My Maps. Free saved maps are public, so avoid including private student information. A Help Center provides tutorials and step-by-step instructions for creating, saving, and sharing maps.
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tag(s): directions (7), geology (59), landforms (38), landmarks (20), map skills (68), maps (222), space (249)
In the Classroom
Students and teachers will want to keep a written record or map URLS and passwords for future reference. Model this for students so they do not lose hours of work! Teachers can prepare partially-made maps or maps for students to make corrections and changes by giving the students the URL, then having them SAVE the map with a NEW ID. To SAVE the map with a new name and URL, click "Save map" in the menu, then enter your OWN map ID. Students could use a code including their initials, such as SJ12-3-09 for a map made by Sally Jones on Dec 3, 2009. Teachers should PASSWORD protect their originals so changes can only be saved under a new name. Similarly, if a student saves the map with a map password, they don't have to worry about other students vandalizing their work. But they DO need to remember the password! Wise teachers will keep a class list of maps and passwords for forgetful students! In primary grades, make maps of your local community together on your interactive whiteboard as you teach basic map skills. Create your own "key" with symbols you choose for playgrounds, etc. Have students help map locations of favorite playgrounds, grandparents' houses, stores, etc. as they gain basic understanding of map skills. Make sure you allow students to operate the tools! Save the map and share it as a link from your class web site (or embed it there). Keep names generic so it is "safe." Other ideas to challenge gifted student beyond the curriculum or elevate challenge for small groups include: natural resource maps, immigration maps, maps of civil war battles day by day, maps of key sites in the life of a famous person, artist, or author, maps of the settings in a novel, landform maps of a continent or state, "My life" maps of places important to an elementary student's family, annotated watershed maps of pollution sources, maps of the water cycle, maps of constellations in the night sky created by students to demonstrate understanding, maps of a dream community to be built in a vacant area (desert), including the water sources, etc. that will be needed, maps of a redesigned city/town on top of its current map. Teachers can provide map challenges or templates to be completed or corrected, including maps where students must label distances and cardinal directions between points (using map scale and skills). Or provide a teacher-created map with labels in the wrong places for students to correct the landforms, resources, etc. What will YOU do with Scribble Maps?You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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