Fun and visually attractive, this Christmas themed atlas work sheet is great for end of term group activities. All you need is an atlas.
A double sided Christmas themed activity sheet. Activities include: finding capital cities, finding countries, locating oceans, using data sets, drawing flags and using geographic language to describe locations - most with a festive theme. Also: draw a snowman, draw a Christmas tree and name all nine of Santa's reindeer.
Included is a display slide with learning objectives and outcomes, an activity slide with instructions, teacher notes and a lesson plan.
This resource was featured by the TES in their blog last year, and recieved a 5* review.
Are you ready to turn this holiday season into a global adventure for your young explorers? Introducing our enchanting Christmas-themed geography map skills activity booklet, specially crafted for curious minds aged 10-14!
Festive Learning Fun: Transform geography lessons into a holiday celebration! Each activity is designed to weave Christmas magic into essential map skills, making learning both educational and joyous.
Engaging and Age-Appropriate: Tailored for 9-12 year olds, our activities strike the perfect balance between challenge and entertainment. Watch as your child hones their map-reading skills while embracing the holiday spirit.
Santa’s Global Adventure: Follow Santa’s journey around the world! From the North Pole to bustling cities and exotic landmarks, each activity unveils a new destination, fostering cultural awareness and geographical knowledge.
Map Skills Included:
Grid References
Scale & Distance
Compass Directions
Contour Lines
Time Zones
A total of 14 activity pages with answers included.
This work booklet guides pupils through vital mapping skills by giving them a ‘how to guide’ as well as a chance to practise their new skills in a variety of questions and tasks. The booklet is aimed at children in upper KS2 and lower KS3 and can be easily adapted to suit. The booklet can be given at the end of a unit of work or spread out across several lessons.
The mapping skills included in this work booklet include:
4 Figure Grid References
6 Figure Grid References
Compass Directions
Contour Lines
Calculating Scale
Each topic above includes a one-page ‘how to guide’ and well as a corresponding 'activity sheet.'
Download is in pdf format.
I’ve put together a homework booklet focusing on the Maths and Statistics skills needed for the 9-1 GCSE Geography courses. There are 13 different homework’s that I’ve been setting and then using as a discussion to start the lesson.
There are homeworks on the following topics -
Bar Charts
Compound Bar Charts
Pie Charts
Scatter Graphs
Interpreting and Using Data
Maps and Grid References
Population Pyramids
Averages
Thank you for taking the time to look at my resources, please feel free to leave any feedback, all help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks Shaun
Up to date worksheet for map skills for any Geography curriculum and Key Stage.
Includes:
4fig grid references
6fig grid references
direction
compass
scale
map symbols
and more
Geography Skills – Map Skills & Symbols
This is a full lesson PP that is part of a humanities curriculum covering History and Geography strands. This lesson is ready to teach and can be used as part of the whole unit that I have uploaded, but each is a standalone lesson so can be taught alone. This lesson covers symbols on maps
A knowledge organiser for some of the numeracy skills that students studying GCSE Geography (AQA) may be asked to use in exams.
It’s a 2 page document which includes:
definition of each numeracy measure
step by step guide on how to calculate it
a worked/model example for each
advantage and disadvantage for each measure
top tip reminders
Includes the following numeracy/statistical skills:
mean (average)
median
mode
range
percentage change
interquartile range
Over 10 rounds and 70+ Questions. Geography Quiz. Geography Quiz - General Knowledge A fun knowledge quiz that tests a range of different skills with students working in teams to compete against each other. Let the best team win!
This resource contains:
☞ 1x PowerPoint with questions and answers laid out in professional format
☞ 1x Student Answer Sheet double sided out of /70+ Marks (PDF and PPT Version) and all the answers!!
☞ Contains 10 Rounds: Name the Tourist Attraction, What Country Am I?, True or False, Identify the Flag, Anagrams, Match the Capital to the Country, Design Challenge and more…
✿ This quiz resource is perfect for lesson time, form time, extra curricular clubs, part of a drop down day or as a fun and educational treat for your class.
✿ A variety of different rounds and different challenges within this quiz for all types of learners to access (something fun no matter what ability)
✿ This quiz resource is perfect for lesson time, form time, extra curricular clubs, part of a drop down day or as a fun treat for your class.
✿ This will last a full hour by the time you get students into small teams and run through the Quiz and the interactive way the answers appear. A tie-breaker is included which involves drawing an image top 3 score points. This informative, fun and engaging quiz will be a great way to teach your students about Geography . Product Code:FUN/C8/QZ/27
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You may also want to check out these other great Geography Cre8tive resources for your students:
✿ GCSE Geography Revision 9-1 Bundle - 350 Questions
✿ Geography General Knowledge End of Term Quiz
✿ KS3 Top Selling Geography Escape Room
✿ Map Reading Skills - Geography Escape Room
✿ Geography Christmas Quiz
✿ What is Fair Trade Lesson
✿ FairTrade Fortnight Activity Pack
✿ World Trade Organisation (WTO) Lesson
A map skills homework booklet for use with KS3 Geography classes.
An amalgamation of worksheets I have gathered over the years to create a comprehensive and easy to mark Map Skills Homework Booklet!
Geography Skills – What is geography?
This is a full lesson PP that is part of a humanities curriculum covering History and Geography strands, as well as Literacy. This lesson is ready to teach and can be used as part of the whole unit that I have uploaded, but each is a standalone lesson so can be taught alone. This lesson covers what the subject it.
Big Geography Quiz 2025
Get ready to embark on an exciting global adventure with the Big Geography Quiz 2025! This fun and engaging resource is perfect for testing and expanding your geographical knowledge. Whether you’re a seasoned geography buff or just starting out, there’s something for everyone in this quiz. Here are the thrilling rounds you’ll encounter:
Where in the World?
Can you identify the location from a set of clues? Test your knowledge of world geography and see how many places you can pinpoint!
Name the Landmark
From the Eiffel Tower to the Great Wall of China, how well do you know the world’s most famous landmarks? Match the landmark to its location and learn fascinating facts along the way.
What Geographical Events Happened in 2024?
Stay up-to-date with the latest in geography! Recall and identify significant geographical events that took place in 2024.
Geographical Records
Who holds the record for the highest mountain? Which country has the longest coastline? Challenge yourself with questions about geographical superlatives and records.
Flags
Test your knowledge of world flags. Can you match the flag to its country? This round is perfect for those who love vexillology!
What Country Am I?
Solve the riddles and clues to figure out which country is being described. This round will test your deductive skills and geographical knowledge.
Test Your Geographical Knowledge
A mixed bag of geography questions to challenge your overall understanding of the world. From physical geography to human geography, this round covers it all!
Join us for a fun-filled quiz that will take you around the world and back. Perfect for classrooms, family game nights, or just a solo challenge. Let’s see how well you know our planet!
Celebrate Christmas this winter with your secondary Geography students with this 54 question xmas quiz for 2024 themed around the event complete with answers in both quick and question by question format. This resource is 54 question Xmas quiz spread across 5 different rounds. It is created on Microsoft Powerpoint and suitable for KS3 and KS4 secondary students.
Whats included?
Within this resource there are 54 questions spanning 5 rounds. A mixture of multiple choice, general knowledge and picture quiz questions. Topics range from Christmas traditions from around the world, flag picture round, capital city and country matchups, Christmas themed Geographical knowledge in addition to skyline picture round.Your learners will have so much fun engaging with this quiz.
Delivery and timings
The answers can then shared as a class by going through each question individually (ensure you are in present mode for the correct answer to colour yellow and the transitions to work) for students to peer or self mark. Additionally, answers to each individual question can be found on the notes section of each individual PowerPoint slide.
If you choose to deliver this in a single session - it could take upto (but not in excess of) an hour to complete depending on how much thinking time you decide to give your students. However, the rounds have been sectioned off within the Powerpoint so that you could potentially delivered a round or two at a time with your classes or tutor groups over the period of a week or two.
I really hope you enjoy this quiz activity. If you get the time, please leave a review - for a limited time I am offering a FREE copy of my Christmas Dingbats resource for every review left. So please leave your email address in the review so I can be sure to get this across to you!
Looking for more Christmas resources?
Check out this Christmas anagram worksheet activity
Humanities Christmas Quiz
Christmas Quiz
Christmas Dingbats resource
FREE Seek and Find Christmas resource
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Whole lesson with instructions and teacher notes. Ideal for end of term.
The main aim is…
For students to work independently, using an atlas in several different ways to find out information about their chosen countries. It will also develop their spatial awareness, and skills in using geographical language.
Key ideas and content…
We can use an atlas in lots of ways, to find out lots of different kinds of information.
Atlases contain a lot of information, but there are ways to find things out very quickly.
Print in A3 - double sided.
Geography Skills – Types Of geography
This is a full lesson PP that is part of a humanities curriculum covering History and Geography strands. This lesson is ready to teach and can be used as part of the whole unit that I have uploaded, but each is a standalone lesson so can be taught alone. This lesson covers the different types of geography
Full unit of work for map skills and the UK. This unit explores compass points, 4 and 6 figure grid references, scale, distance, longitude, latitude and other core map skills, alongside the UK. All lessons are suitable for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required. Most suitable for KS2, years 5 or 6.
All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 – Introducing maps
2 – Where is the UK?
3 – Compass points
4 – Map symbols
5 – 4 and 6 figure grid references
6 – Scale and distance
7 – Atlas skills
8 – Longitude and latitude
9 – Design a treasure map
10 – ICT Mapzone
11 – UK and Europe flags
12 – Migration
13 – Human vs physical features
Also includes Geography Literacy mat and Geography Numeracy/Map Skills mat, as well as an extension sheet pack with homework’s and activities to extend pupil skills and knowledge.
Links to National Curriculum:
- Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities
- Name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time
- Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones (including day and night)
**Includes all 12 of my GCSE revision packs! **
An excellent series of well resourced lessons perfect for revising physical Geography as well as geographical skills.
Perfect for any GCSE class and works for all exam boards.
The bundle includes:
Coasts revision lesson/sheet.
Coasts skills (maps, photo analysis and more)
Rivers revision lesson/sheet
River skills (maps, coordinates, photo analysis and more)
Tectonics revision
Rainforests and deserts revision
Urban environments GCSE mapping
6x GCSE quizzes
Each lesson has all of the answers to each question on the PPTs so can be peer marked. PPTs include title/objectives, main tasks, quick quizzes, starter tasks and extension/challenges.
In total the content could take up to 6/7 lessons to get through or would make fantastic homework/extensions to boost achievement and understanding.
A word search featuring 29 keywords from the ‘Geography Skills’ topic.
This resource is perfect as a starter or plenary activity within an introduction to geography scheme of work aimed at year 7 students or early KS3.
KS3 Geography Cover Work Worksheets | Independent Learning Tasks | Physical & Human Geography
This ready-to-use KS3 Geography cover work pack includes engaging and curriculum-aligned worksheets across a wide range of physical and human geography topics. Ai was used to help make these resources. Each worksheet is designed for independent learning, making it ideal for cover lessons, homework, revision, or distance learning — especially useful for non-specialist delivery.
Each worksheet includes:
Key knowledge from the KS3 geography curriculum
Retrieval tasks to reinforce prior learning
Short-answer and extended-response questions
Key vocabulary with definitions and usage support
Clear instructions for fully independent use
Printable and editable formats (Word/Google Docs)
Covers major KS3 geography topics including:
Weather and Climate
Rivers and Coasts
Natural Hazards
Population and Urbanisation
Development and Global Inequality
Resource Management and Sustainability
Map Skills and Fieldwork Techniques
These worksheets help students develop geographical knowledge, vocabulary, and key skills — supporting them in making connections between places, processes, and environments.
KS3 Geography, cover work, independent learning, geography worksheets, physical geography, human geography, retrieval, revision, homework, map skills, urbanisation, sustainability, weather and climate, rivers and coasts, editable resources
For any time! The Ultimate KS3 Geography Quiz! For no fuss, geographical fun. This quiz is a whirlwind tour through the curriculum, perfect for a bit of a start of term warm-up, or end of end term wind-down. The quiz is light-hearted and amusing, multiple choice, interactive and focused on all areas of the KS3 curriculum.
The rounds include:
Location, location, location,
Out of Africa,
Lucky Dip,
My Mad Geography Skills,
Human Impact
Rockin’ all over the world (physical geography)
Please note, the quiz is large so it’s in the ZIP file. The images are just a small preview of what’s inside :)
All answers are included, there is a score sheet (last page of PowerPoint), and the quiz lasts up to 45 mins. It can either be played having the answers revealed as you go along, or the board can be paused and the answers read out at the end (you can play either in teams or individually).
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A big lesson with lots of opportunity for differentiation and engagement, as well as paired or group work.
Basically, students learn how to describe places, and then apply this skill. It would work well as a skills building lesson in KS3, or as an end of term type lesson with either KS3 or KS4.
There are differentiated resources for lower and higher, and a number of ways in which the activities could be undertaken (which are in the lesson plan). There are teacher notes and a lesson plan. The activities are clear, and there are Superstar extension activities.
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The main aim is…
This is a big lesson which could be used as an end of term activity, or as a skills building lesson.
Students either learn or develop their geographical terminology and then apply / demonstrate using photos of actual places.
Key ideas and content…
We can describe places using geographical language.
It is more effective to use the correct key terms and descriptive language.
To differentiate…
Pass the sheets round on a timer, with the challenge of either adding more key terms or improving existing ones.
Stick the sheets on the wall around the room, give each student a different key term to look for. Students go round the room.
Insist on certain terms being applied.
To extend…
Insist on a description of features which aren’t necessarily visible.
Students find their own photos and analyse them.
Peer assessment.
There are some tricky terms in the key terms activity, use to stretch students.
To assess…
Discussion points.
The work produced.
Peer assessment opportunity.