Google Lit Trips is a fun interactive way to get your students involved in Literary works without limiting the students to a book and a piece of paper

Google Lit Trips was created by Jerome Burg, a school teacher from Livermore, California, in order to get his students more involved in literary works in the classroom

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•2008 Goldman Sachs Foundation Prize for Excellence in International Education for Media and Technology.

•LeRoy Finkel Fellowship from Computer Using Educators, Inc.

Google Lit Trips, which contains "lit," to show the importance of literature to the application. However, its double meaning is found in the answer to the question, "How can you find out more information about a particular work of literature?" You "Google-it," which, when said quickly, has the same sound as "Google Lit.“

•Lesson Plans for ALL ages•Teach students geography and point out important places in US and world history.•Lit Trips can be internationally as well•Lit Trips can be used to teach students about cultures through books from different countries

In the classroom

orFor Fun!

Teachers and instructors who want to teach a culturally based

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other cultures who want to learn more about those cultures

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