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Enhance Literature Learning with Google Lit Trips for All Grade Levels

Google Lit Trips offers an innovative collection of KML/KMZ files that allows students to experience literature in a dynamic way using Google Earth. By virtually following characters through their stories, students engage deeply with texts from the 17th to the 20th century while developing 21st-century literacy skills. This resource is perfect for elementary, middle, and high school classes, integrating various subjects like geography, meteorology, and literature. Tutorial videos guide educators in creating unique Lit Trips to enrich students' understanding of historical and cultural contexts.

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Enhance Literature Learning with Google Lit Trips for All Grade Levels

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  1. Google LitTrips Evelyn Wassel, Ed.D. STEP2013 June 2013

  2. Google LitTrips • http://www.googlelittrips.org/ • A collection of Google Earth (KML/KMZ) files that follow a piece of literature.  • Elementary, middle, and high school classes.   • Combines 21st century literacy skills with 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th century literature.  • Places students in the middle of a story and with Google Earth they are able to follow a character (or characters) virtually through a tale.

  3. Google LitTrips • Integration • The Cay by Theodore Taylor • Students create bookmap • Track data of recent hurricanes • Technology • Geography • Literature • Meteorology

  4. How to • Tutorials take you step-by-step through the process of adding placemarks and embedding multimedia information. • Home page Getting Started  watch the demonstration videos that show you how to use this resource. • As you plan a lit trip, think about information that will help your students envision places they have never seen. • Linkto references that will give them a better understanding of the story's real-world historical, cultural, and geographical context. • Embed just about anything you find online, from song lyrics to broadcast-news clips. • Lit Trip Tips to provide more detailed instruction about everything, from formatting placemark descriptions to adding route paths. Home page Downloads etc.  Lit Trip Tips

  5. Explore • Explore a Google LitTrip from the site and be prepared to share out with a partner. • What did you like? • Describe the features embedded in the file. • How can you use this in your field?

  6. Your Turn!!! • Create a LitTrip!!!

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