Week 5 Task 2 Activity Google Maps

My lesson is geared towards 2nd grade. Sometime in the beginning of the year I would have them start pen-pal letters. The 2nd graders would find a state they would like to learn more about and select a city within that state. At that point we could pull up Google maps to explore any interesting facts about the area. The student's would then start to create their letter writing skills. As a class, we would make a plan of interesting places in Battle Creek, such as Kingman Museum, Leila Arboretum, Post Elementary, Post Cereal, and of course somewhere fun like Full Blast. I would create a Google map of the places we came up with and the students would incorporate the map into their writing. (If I were doing the pen-pal letters with upper grades I would try something an online pen-pal site). This activity could continue all year and students would be able to share what they learned about their state with their classmates. We could continue to develop the map all year as well.
http://maps.google.com/maps/empw?url=http:%2F%2Fmaps.google.com%2Fmaps%2Fms%3Fie%3DUTF8%26msa%3D0%26msid%3D101122621346498101082.00044ef489ea6723ba861%26ll%3D42.31617,-85.18022%26spn%3D0.008169,0.018711%26output%3Dembed%26s%3DAARTsJpeHyDLiCHGZN7ojSOJA1e-UDtXkQ&hl=en&gl=us