Geography Resources to try out as they are, or tweak, or use as templates for your own activities!

Only a selection of our activities for geography are on line at the moment. We intend to add more and would welcome your guidance on what you would like to see first. We hold a range of activities in our archive which we developed in for integrated studies, humanities, and GYSL. Please try to attend one of our workshops to help develop and revise collaborative geography resources.

Continental Drift

Not an activity on tectonic plates (see The Fossils Speak), but a sorting activity to encourage collaborative atlas use. Lots of information on cards which belongs to different continents and which can be sorted on a matrix.

Extreme Weather C4

Extreme Weather Pairs

Two game like activities to identify the impact of cyclones, electric storms, drought etc

What Can You Grow?

An information gap using raincharts and temperature graphs to compare UK and tropical climate together with a series of tables, clues and charts to establish what can be grown where.

Weather Connect Four

A connect four game about the impact of weather and climate on different activities.

Time of Your Life

Activities to promote talk around leisure. A pairs/sorting activity of leisure pursuits plus a unique opportunity to compare your leisure activities with those of your monarch.

Take It Make It Sell It

An activity that looks at primary, secondary and tertiary industry.

Staying Alive

A picture sorting activity which looks at the kinds of facilities needed by a successful settlement. The pictures are a little dated. They were provided by the ILEA when this project was part of their EAL support network, but we have kept them as a sentimental reminder of the time when teachers could bid for funding that directly supported their resource development.

Settlement Invasion

Why do settlements do well? Why do others decline? A simulation of the early settlement of London and the impact of the Roman invasion. Sorting activities, work with coordinates and mapping skills.

Nottingham Seasons

An activity developed for a Nottingham school and Nottingham weather but easily changed to fit your school and your weather. We'd like to have some six or eight season activities to accompany this one so please send them in!

Mapwork

Do you have old maps which are gridded like the Ordnance Survey? Ideas and resources here to turn these old maps into games for learning about map symbols and signs.

Fossils Speak

Fossils found in Britain tell you what the climate was like when they were around to demonstrate how bits of Britain have moved from around the Falkland Islands via South America to here over a few hundred million years.

Transport Information Gap

Like a Barrier Game. One child has half the pictures and another child the other half. They have to discover each other's pictures by asking questions that can only be answered Yes or No. You can find another example of this easily adaptable/tweakable game in the science activities

Vertebrate Information Gap

Supply Chain

This is a sorting and sequencing activity that can run and run when you research and add your own information. How many miles does a shirt travel? How many countries does it visit? We would love to have your supply chains to add to our activity.

Glaciers Dominoes

This is a closed domino activity and can either be used as a revision activity or to check on prior knowledge or as an incentive to checking information in other sources. Scaffolding for oracy is provided in the form of a starters and connectives collection.