Tour Builder is an interactive storytelling tool that connects people to places using Google Maps and multimedia content. It’s easy to integrate text, photos, and videos onto Google Maps to create an immersive storytelling or journey experience.

Ideas for lesson design:

http://mrbradfordonline.com/gtb/

Use Tourbuilder to create student tasks or activities to be completed for assessment or just to share with family and friends: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JTHnU595i13OPiJLEiv2ydG9sFxLi_MGAcQ6W-mBk_U/edit?ts=569fee5b

Some possibilities with Tourbuilder:

Create virtual field trips

Tour a country/city you are studying

Build a tour around a great historical figure.

Tour locations from a novel or story

Create a map of locations of live animal webcams

Show locations from an historic novel

Create an architectural tour

Research holidays and create a tour featuring the countries in which they originated

Create a tour featuring locations of endangered animals

Tour landmarks

Use to show locations of historical events.

Create a tour of “Top Spots” in your city.

Use to tour hometowns of music stars

Create a tour showcasing students’ summer vacations.

Create a tour around current events.

Tour locations of activities you are involved in.

Create a tour based on weather.

Tour migration paths of animals.

 

GOOGLE TOUR BUILDER GUIDE (WORD)

GOOGLE TOUR BUILDER GUIDE (PDF)

GOOGLE TOUR BUILDER GUIDE (POWERPOINT)