Design Virtual Trips with Google Tour Builder

Tour Builder, a free Google tool, that allows users to build virtual trips showcasing text, images, and videos. You choose the information shared and the location displayed at each tour spot.

Suggestions for Use

• path of a historical event, such as a battle
• mapping the community
• places that have changed our community over time (@jenn6416)
• path taken by a historical figure, such as a tour of important landmarks in Columbus’ journey (@mr_middle_2)
• locations from a book
• highlighting math in the world, such as find examples of acute angles in architecture (@mbswoods)
• various landforms or biomes 
• create tours to give a geospatial perspective on current events to expand on the roles of GIS in Earth Science (@jcalderitrt)

Examples of Google Tour Builder

Language Arts Focus

• Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey 
• Big as an Elephant by Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Social Studies Focus

• The War of Independence: Events During the American Revolution
• United States Landmarks
• 25th Bicycle Calvary Corps
• Holidays Around the World
• Ancient Egypt

Science Focus

• Catlin Seaview Survey Underwater Streetview Tour
• Geographic Journey to Tanzania’s Gombe National Park (Jane Goodall Institute)
• Animals and Habitats

Math Focus

• 3D Shapes Around the World

Art Focus

• The Life of Kandinsky

Miscellaneous

• Super Sleuth - Chet's Cheesy Chicken Chimichanga Recipe