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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.
xplore Fun and Educational Geography Resources for Families
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!
🧭 Top Free UK Geography Resources for Families
1. Royal Geographical Society – Geography@Home
- 🔗 rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/geography-at-home
- Age: 7–16+
- Offers home-based projects, creative mapping tasks, local area exploration ideas, and downloadable worksheets.
- Topics include physical geography, sustainability, climate change, and global development.
2. BBC Bitesize – Geography
- 🔗 bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zx882hv
- Age: KS1–KS4
- Short, engaging videos, animations, quizzes, and revision tools.
- Covers UK geography, weather, rivers, coasts, population, urbanisation, and more.
3. Ordnance Survey – MapZone
- 🔗 ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone
- Age: 7–14
- Interactive games and activities to help children understand maps, coordinates, and UK geography.
- Ideal for practising map reading and compass directions.
4. National Geographic Kids (UK Edition)
- 🔗 natgeokids.com/uk
- Age: 6–13
- Geography facts, quizzes, explorer profiles, and country features.
- Printable fact sheets, games, and articles on animals, volcanoes, rainforests, and more.
5. Digimap for Schools (Free Access for Some Home Learners)
- 🔗 digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk
- Access via school or local authority; check eligibility.
- Offers detailed, zoomable OS maps of the UK with annotation and measurement tools.
- Great for exploring local areas and planning fieldwork.
6. Earth Cubs (KS1 & KS2)
- 🔗 earthcubs.com
- Age: 5–11
- Free printable resources, games, and videos that teach global citizenship and geography through storytelling and characters.
- Covers continents, climate, culture, wildlife, and sustainability.
🌍 Apps and Interactive Tools
- Google Earth / Google Maps
Explore terrain, cities, oceans, and landmarks from around the world. - Seterra Geography Games – seterra.com
Fun map quizzes on countries, flags, capital cities, rivers, and more. - Geoguessr (free with limited play) – geoguessr.com
Uses Google Street View to guess locations worldwide. - What3Words App – Learn about location systems and mapping by exploring how 3-word combinations describe locations.
📦 Paid / Subscription Options
1. Twinkl Geography Resources
- 🔗 twinkl.co.uk/resources/subjects/geography
- Age: EYFS–KS4
- Worksheets, lesson packs, PowerPoints, and fieldwork ideas.
- Great for parents wanting printable, curriculum-aligned resources.
2. Oddizzi
- 🔗 oddizzi.com
- Age: 5–11
- Subscription-based site with videos, country profiles, quizzes, and geography challenges.
- Used by schools but available for family use at home.
🧺 Hands-On Geography Activities for Home
- 🌳 Local fieldwork: Measure rainfall, map your street, track sunlight.
- 🗺️ Family map challenge: Plan a walk using OS maps, draw a route, identify landmarks.
- 🛫 "World Tour" Night: Choose a country each week, cook its food, learn its capital, climate, and language.
- 🌍 Weather Diary: Record temperature, cloud type, wind, and rainfall for a week.
- 🧳 Travel Poster Creation: Pick a UK county or world country and make a fact-filled poster or presentation.
- National Geographic Kids contains lots of engaging geography resources for primary aged children and is curriculum aligned and the You Tube channel has many different videos on relevant subject matters relating to geography
- The Royal Geographical Society have designed a unit of resources relating to the physical and human environments of the United Kingdom.
- The Mapzone tool supported by Ordnance Survey is a fantastic interactive way to introduce kids to map skills
- Kids World Travel Guide is a simple, informative website giving kid-friendly facts from around the world
- World Geography Games has quick and easy games for helping young students with countries, flags, capital cities and oceans
- The Tutorful website has compiled a list of useful educational geography resources
- 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
- The BBC Teach site has some resources related to Go Jetters for Early Years Foundation Stage to Key Stage 1 children
- The EarthCam website has links to many different locations around the world including landmarks, volcanoes, towns and cities,
- 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
- 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
- The excellent Twinkl home education site has home education resources covering geographical topics for all stages, including some free downloads. All downloads are available with a Twinkl membership, but you can also access a free trial
- Oxford Owl at home have written an article about the geography curriculum and how parents can support their child's learning at home.
- BBC Bitesize has a full set of videos and articles to support geography learning at home
- 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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