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Geography Resources At Home
Explore the World from Home: Geography Resources for Families
Bring the wonders of the world into your home with our fun and educational geography resources for families. From printable maps and interactive quizzes to hands-on activities and virtual field trips, our collection helps children discover continents, countries, cultures, and climates in exciting and memorable ways. Perfect for home learning, homework help, or family exploration time, these geography tools are designed to spark curiosity and make global learning fun for all ages.
Discover a world of learning with our geography resources for families, perfect for curious minds of all ages. Whether you're homeschooling, supporting schoolwork, or simply exploring the planet from home, our hand-picked activities and tools make geography exciting and accessible for children and parents alike.
From interactive maps and virtual field trips to weather experiments and environmental challenges, our resources cover key topics such as climate, ecosystems, landforms, and global cultures. Aligned with the UK geography curriculum, these family-friendly resources are ideal for learners aged 5–16 and encourage hands-on, real-world discovery.
Start your geography adventure today—at home or on the go!
1. Royal Geographical Society – Geography@Home offers home-based projects, creative mapping tasks, local area exploration ideas, and downloadable worksheets with topics including physical geography, sustainability, climate change and global development
2. BBC Bitesize – Geography covers Key Stage 1 to 4 with short engaging videos, animations, quizzes and revision tools covering UK geography, weather, rivers, coasts, population, urbanisation and more
3. Ordnance Survey – MapZone is aimed at ages 7 to 14 with interactive games and activities to help children understand maps, coordinates and UK geography which are ideal for practising map reading and compass directions
4. National Geographic Kids (UK Edition) is packed full of geography facts, quizzes, explorer profiles and country features with printable fact sheets, games and articles on animals, volcanoes, rainforests and more for ages 6 to 13
5. Digimap for Schools has free access for some home learners or can be accessed via schools or local authorities (check eligibility). The site offers detailed, zoomable Ordinance Survey maps of the Uk with annotation and measurement tools and is great for explroing local areas and planning fieldwork
6. Earth Cubs for primary school aged children have free printable resources, games and videos that teach global citizenship and geography through storytelling and characters covering continents, climate, culture, wildlife and sustainability
7. Google Earth / Google Maps are great interactive tools to explore terrain, cities, oceans, and landmarks from around the world.
8.Seterra Geography Games has fun map quizzes on countries, flags, capital cities, rivers and more
9. Geoguessr is free with lmiited play and uses Google Street View to guess locations worldwide
10. The What3Words app is a widely used geocode system designed to identify any location on the surface of Earth with a resolution of approximately 3 metres. It can also be used to learn about location systems and mapping by exploring how 3 word combinations describe locations
11. Twinkl Geography Resources are available via a paid subscription (free trials available) for all ages with worksheets, lesson packs, PowerPoints and field work ideas amongst their printable curriculum aligned resources
12. Oddizzi is a subscription-based site with videos, country profiles and geography challenges. This site is widely used by schools but available for family use at home
13.The Mapzone tool supported by Ordnance Survey is a fantastic interactive way to introduce kids to map skills
14.Kids World Travel Guide is a simple, informative website giving kid-friendly facts from around the world
15. World Geography Games has quick and easy games for helping young students with countries, flags, capital cities and oceans
16. The Tutorful website has compiled a list of useful educational geography resources
17.The cross-curricular BBC Bitesize series of programmes has a regular series of geographic activities and learning materials as well as these specific sites for key stage 1 and key stage 2
18.The BBC Teach site has some resources related to Go Jetters for Early Years Foundation Stage to Key Stage 1 children
19.The EarthCam website has links to many different locations around the world including landmarks, volcanoes, towns and cities,
20. The Teach Primary website has some great ideas for how you can use Google Earth for key stage 1 and 2 children for activities at home
21.Popular CBeebies show Go Jetters has a great minisite with games, songs and quizzes for young primary age children. You can also view any of the episodes directly on BBCiPlayer
22. Oxford Owl at home have written an article about the geography curriculum and how parents can support their child's learning at home.
23.The excellent Our Planet site gives children an opportunity to explore the world with its interactive tool and spot landmarks and historical changes
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