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Historic Map Works is an online gallery of hundreds of historical maps. On Historic Map Works you can browse for maps by continent, country, state, and province. Contrary to my initial experience, downloading the map images is not free. But, you can view more than half of the maps as Google Maps overlays using Historic Map Works's free Historic Earth Basic.

"mapFAST is a great use of Google Maps for finding texts about places all over the world. Visit mapFAST, type in a location and mapFAST will generate a list of texts about that location. . . . Applications for Education mapFAST could be a great tool for students doing research on a place or region. If you want students to look at books that are available for free viewing online, have them filter the Google Books list generated by mapFAST to "full view only" books."

Plan­ning a real-life field trip is a project that requires stu­dents to research online, explore the geog­ra­phy of the city using Google maps, col­lab­o­rate in small groups, plan for and use pub­lic trans­porta­tion, cre­ate rea­son­able timeta­bles, orga­nize itin­er­aries on a spread­sheet, bud­get, and com­mu­ni­cate with parents.

These digital resources and tools for creating, collaborating, researching, and sharing can be found in the Common Core Curriculum Maps. This is not intended to be a comprehensive list, as the technologies are constantly evolving. Consider it a beginning!

"We are a non-profit tech company that develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. "

"finds age-appropriate educational content on any topic presented with interactive multimedia interfaces generates quiz questions based on student's research activity and skill level supports creation of research journals and concept maps for learning assessment"