Remote Teaching and Learning Ideas for Lower Primary
Geography
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.
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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.
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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.
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Let's Make KS1 and KS2 Geography More Fun!
Education Quizzes provides students with home-based support for their schoolwork when using phones, tablets, desktops and laptop computers.
The online quizzes are written by teachers to help children remember and revise what they are learning in class.
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Know Your Globe
Join Jessi, Bill and Webb to learn all about the place we call home!
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18 Virtual Field Trip Ideas for Early Learners
A list of 18 virtual field trip ideas for kindergarten and first-grade students. This collection of ideas consists of videos and interactive virtual tours.
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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!
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Tiny Travelers
These Tiny Travelers activities, fun facts and resources will use the theme of travel to teach kids 8 and under about geography, language, history, culture, and more.
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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.
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13 Ways to Get Children Excited About Geography
Boost your students' natural curiosity about the world around with some at-home geography fun. Teacher Jenny Cooke, creator of the Oddizzi website for primary school learners, shares her wanderlust tips to help you turn a rainy afternoon into an exotic adventure.
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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.
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8 Amazing Geography Lesson Ideas for in the Classroom
Here are some fun geography apps to make it more interactive and visual. Don't forget to stick around and get inspired by all the fun geography lesson examples.
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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.
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Kids World Travel Guide
Kids World Travel Guide provides comprehensive and easy-to-read country facts and insights about famous landmarks, people and cultures, animals and attractions. The guide is used extensively in schools and education centres around the world.
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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.
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Primary Geography - Remote Learning Activities
Fully editable document with trusted web links to support Geography remote learning at home for both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Download now!
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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.
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The Ultimate Map Quiz Site
All map quizzes are customizable, so that you can select only the locations you want to be quizzed on. Custom quizzes can easily be shared with your friends or students.
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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.
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Learn Geography With Dr. Binocs
Learn brain-engaging geography topics by watching back to back videos about the Formation of our Solar System , Structure of the Earth, Water Cycle, and many more with Dr. Binocs.
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How to Make a Map
Show this video to your students on how to make a map.
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Map Borders
Learn about map borders and complete an interesting hands-on activity. This video is part of Activity Starters, which is an animated video series. In each episode an animated character introduces a concept and an activity.
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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.
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