Google Lit Trips

UPDATE: I've downloaded Frankenstein!

To get any of the Lit Trips, you first have to make sure you are registered. Then you look up the title you want to have to make sure its available in their resources. Finally, you go to the GLT Shop, fill in your email and the title of the Lit Trip you'd like to use and then submit the form. They will email you a file to download and open in Google Earth.

There are some really cool discussion starters on the pages when you go between locations that could help guide classroom discussions or to help study for a test.

Each page of this particular trip also includes quotes directly from the book that correlate with the location being shown on the map. The table of contents allows you to jump from spot to spot without having to load each one individually. So if you're talking about a particular chapter, you can go directly to that location bookmark to show where your character is located.

Overall I really like this little program and it seems to be super fun to do as a group!

The creature's hut example:



May not work well on individual Chromebooks due to the graphics cards. I encourage you to use this on your smart boards as a class.

I recently became aware of a really neat virtual field trip option called Google Lit Trips. This is a website filled with literary based virtual field trips for students to take to help enhance their learning experience. They are sectioned out into three levels:


Grades K-5

Grades 6-8

Grades 9-12

And you can also search them alphabetically. 

This website contains so many fun and interactive things that would enhance our student's day to day learning that I just had to share about it!

I decided to go on a virtual field trip of my own and I found out you have to register to be able to access the different field trips. Some of which are student made!

Go here to follow the directions on how to register. 

I registered and plan on adding more to this post as I learn more!

An example from "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech



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