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via http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2012/05/google-map-for-interactive-whiteboards.html

"The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work-researching, writing, and publishing-of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database."

Via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/04/history-engine-explore-stories-of.html

"Create and view beautifully informative animated maps, for free!"

"Have locations you need to map? Well try this free and unique tool to...

* Map them using Google Maps
* Publish a map on your Web site
* Create a store locator
* Get coordinates, print maps, and more!"

...especially true if the classroom has a Smart Board

Turn a boring old spreadsheet into an interactive web-based map, timeline, or table with some simple HTML using the free, open source Exhibit project. Exhibit takes data sets up to about 500 rows, plots locations on a Google Map, dates on an interactive timeline, and displays images and links in a tabular or thumbnail view. The viewer can sort, search, and filter data in any Exhibit view without reloading the page. You can make Exhibit do all this with a single HTML file and a spreadsheet-no hardcore programming required.

On this article we will talk about how to add a Virtual Earth map to your blogs using Windows Live Writer. Get the software from http://download.live.com/writer.

Don't have administrator rights? Download the Google Earth installer for single user.