History, Medicine, and Science: Nonfiction and Fiction discussion

I don't know if we have any teachers or professors in the group, somehow I'm sure we do. I came across this site in looking for K-12 teacher resources. It's aimed at fiction books, but could easily be applied to history (there is one for history as well).

http://www.googlelittrips.org/ - Have tutorials on creating them, might be great way to follow a disease path

http://homepage.mac.com/larow2/Voyage...

I LOVE this idea :)

Hi,
I am the founder of the GoogleLitTrips project and was happy to see your post. The project (soon to be a 501(c)(3) non profit, does include both fiction and non-fiction. You might find the Lit Trip for Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary of interest. It's the story of the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. This Lit Trip was developed in collaboration with the book's author, Elizabeth Partridge.
There are other historical fiction titles in the Lit Trips project including, My Brother Sam is Dead, The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, Fever 1793, The Brother's War:Civil War Voices in Verse, Underground to Canada, Hana's Suitcase, The Slave Dancer, Priscilla and the Hollyhocks, Night and others.
You might also like a website similar to mine entitled Google Historical Voyages and Events at: http://homepage.mac.com/larow2/Voyage...

Thanks for letting us know more about your project, Jerome. Fascinating stuff.

I find both of the sites listed above to be excellent. The LitTrip site deals with literature only. And the projects are done solely with Google Earth.

The second site - Google Historical Voyages and Events - can use any Google tool. It has a history theme and teachers can suggest additional topics. I like the fact there are projects from around the World, not just the U.S. and that it can be on many topics - history of your community, history of an era, historical events, authors, etc.

GM