Remote Teaching and Learning Ideas for Lower Primary

Distance Learning: Creating Geography Activities in Google Slides™️

As you know, we’re teaching in different times. Maybe you’re killing it with this whole distance learning thing, or maybe you’re not – either way, Sarah, a Social Studies teacher and a Media Specialist, shares some advice with you on how to create these digital interactive activities. You will find a step-by-step guide at the end of the article too.

10 Best Geography Apps of 2020

Make learning geography fun with quizzes, trivia questions, and more in the best geography apps on the market today.

Know Your Globe

Join Jessi, Bill and Webb to learn all about the place we call home!

9 Free Online Geography Games for Kids: Learn the World!

The interactive games on these websites will make students forget they are learning! Better yet – they are all totally free and suitable for all ages. But watch out…they can be a little addictive!

Five Tips to Start Creating on Google Earth

The new creation tools in Google Earth allow you to easily create and share your discoveries and stories about our world with friends, students or coworkers and they can view it anywhere--their phone, tablet or laptop. Better yet, you can invite others to collaborate and co-author projects with you.

Ten Ways to Use Google Earth in Your Classroom

People often only associate Google Earth with social studies lessons. While it is a fantastic tool for social studies lessons, it can also be used in science, math, and language arts.

Here are ten ways for students to use Google Earth in your classroom.

Primary Geography From Home

This set of primary resources are designed to support primary teachers and pupils at this unprecedented time and offer the chance for all pupils within a household to work together to enjoy a range of hands-on geographical activities that require minimum use of screens and/or paper.

National Geographic Education in Kahoot!

Start your National Geographic expedition with the collection of quizzes. Navigate your knowledge about people and places, and put yourself on the map with other explorers ready to challenge you.

Top 5 Resources for Teaching Geography Skills

Keith Heggart provides a whole range of interesting resources that might help when you teach your students geography skills. And, like a lot of real world geography, technology is at the heart of most of these.

Geography for Age 5-11

Free teacher classroom resources suitable for use in geography lessons with primary school children at Key Stage 1 & 2 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and at 1st and 2nd Level in Scotland.

How to Make a Map

Show this video to your students on how to make a map.

Learn Geography with Carmen Sandiego

Help your kids become expert super-sleuths with these Carmen Sandiego™ educational resources! From posters to card games to episode guides and more, you’ll find everything you need to spark curiosity and inspire your Carmen crew.