Digital Literacy Lesson: The Tech Behind Google Maps

It tells you fun facts about the place

It gives you a route to get there

It sends you a text message

Looked at their own house

Searched for famous landmarks

Made their own maps

Just one big paper map

Satellites, street view cars, and special cameras

Guessing where everything is

They use cars, backpacks, bikes, and even camels!

They ask people to draw pictures of streets

They fly drones everywhere

It looks at traffic and other people's travel times

It asks people to guess

It flips a coin

It collects a lot of information about places and people

It makes people get lost more often

It only works on rainy days

Let you see a place like you are really there

Turn maps into a board game

Make everything look like a cartoon