Geography
Here's our new geography section. It's far from finished so keep coming back as new programs will be appearing regularly.
Map reading skills
Contours
An interactive application to help you understand the correlation between contours on a map and the side profile of a geological feature.
   
Six-figure grid references
A fast-paced game that tests your ability to accurately locate a six-figure grid reference on a map.
   
Ordnance Survey: pairs game 1
A game to help your pupils remember the Ordnance Survey symbols. This game requires a good memory as well as knowledge of this subject area.
   
Ordnance Survey: pairs game 2
Another game to help your pupils remember the Ordnance Survey symbols. This game requires a good memory as well as knowledge of this subject area.
   
Ordnance Survey: pairs game 3
Yet another game to help your pupils remember the Ordnance Survey symbols. This game requires a good memory as well as knowledge of this subject area.
   
Six-figure grid references and O.S.map symbols: Quiz 1
A game that tests your ability to identify the feature located at a given six-figure grid reference.
   
Six-figure grid references and O.S.map symbols: Quiz 2
Another game that tests your ability to identify the feature located at a given six-figure grid reference.
   
Bearings
Bearings: Maps and scaled drawings
Learn to measure distances and draw bearings on a scaled drawing. This resource is accompanied by a printable worksheet.
   
Drawing bearings
Drawing bearings
A whole class activity to teach pupils to accurately draw, measure and estimate a three figure bearing.
   
Estimating bearings
Estimating bearings
A whole class activity to teach pupils to accurately estimate a three figure bearing.
   
   
Coasts
Coastal features
A compendium of games and activities to ensure you know the key-terms and their definitions: jigsaw puzzle, cloud-click quiz, hangman, anagrams and our ever popular froggy-spelling challenge. Click here for s slightly higher level quiz: Coastal features - higher
   
Longshore drift
A sequence of animations showing the process of longshore drift.
   
Wave erosion
A beautiful set of animations describing the various processes of wave erosion.
   
Caves, arches, stacks and stumps
A sequence of animations showing how coastal landforms are formed by wave erosion.
   
Cliff retreat and wave-cut platforms
A sequence of animations describing the process by which a wave-cut platform is formed.
   
Headlands and bays
An application to show how headlands and bays form over time.
   
Coastal management: glossary games
A compendium of games and activities to ensure you know the key-terms and their definitions: jigsaw puzzle, cloud-click quiz, hangman, anagrams and our ever popular froggy-spelling challenge.
   
Coastal management: jigsaw
A jigsaw activity where you match the methods of coastal management to their description.
   
Coastal management: value line activity
There are many different ways we can act to control coastal erosion. In this activity you must consider the different methods and then decide where they should be placed on a value line.
   
Coastal processes quiz
A general knowledge quiz on the action of the sea and coastal landforms.
   
Six-figure grid references and map symbols: coastal features
A game that tests your ability to identify the coastal feature located at a given six-figure grid reference.
   
The UK coast line
A simple map showing the areas of the UK at risk to flooding in the event of a sea level rise due to global warming.
   
   
Ice on land
Glacial erosion
A suite of animations showing the three main processes of glacial erosion: freeze-thaw weathering, plucking and abrasion.
   
glacialFeatures: glossary games
A compendium of games and activities to ensure you know the key-terms and their definitions: jigsaw puzzle, cloud-click quiz, hangman, anagrams and our ever popular froggy-spelling challenge.
   
Formation of a corrie
A sequence of animations depicting the gradual formation of a corrie, cirque or cwm.
   
Glacial landforms: labelling exercise
Learn to identify the features of a landscape shaped by the action of glaciers with this labelling exercise.
   
Glacier budget
An application to help you understand the glacier as a system of inputs and outputs. Discover how changes in the weather may affect its advance or retreat.
   
   
Water on land
Rivers features
A compendium of games and activities to ensure you know the key-terms and their definitions: jigsaw puzzle, cloud-click quiz, hangman, anagrams and our ever popular froggy-spelling challenge. Click here for s slightly higher level quiz: Rivers features - higher
   
Meanders and ox-bow lakes
An animation to illustrate the formation of meanders and ox bow lakes.
   
Waterfalls and gorges
A suite of animations illustrating how a gorge is formed as a waterfall retreats upstream.
   
Hydrological cycle: glossary games
A compendium of games and activities to ensure you know the key-terms and their definitions: jigsaw puzzle, cloud-click quiz, hangman, anagrams and our ever popular froggy-spelling challenge.
   
The hydrological cycle
A visual database showing the processes involved in the movement of water in the hydrological cycle.
   
Flood management: glossary games
A compendium of games and activities to ensure you know the key-terms and their definitions: jigsaw puzzle, cloud-click quiz, hangman, anagrams and our ever popular froggy-spelling challenge.
   
   
Tectonic activity
Tectonics: constructive & destructive boundaries
An animation to show how oceanic crust is created at a divergent boundary and destroyed at a convergent boundary.
   
Tectonic plate boundaries
This interactive map shows you the major plates, their relative motion and the distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes around the world.
   
Conservative boundaries and earthquakes
A series of animations showing how the movement of tectonic plates at conservative boundaries produces earthquakes.
   
Types of volcano
See how composite, shield, dome and cinder cone volcanoes are formed with this suite of animations.
   
The structure of the Earth
An application showing the layers of the Earth.
   
Tectonics quiz
A general knowledge quiz on tectonic activity.
   
Rock Cycle
The rock cycle
Two drag 'n' drop activities to teach you all about the different types of rock and how they are formed.
   
   
Weather and climate
Precipitation: relief, convectional and frontal
A series of animations illustrating the three main processes that result in precipitation.
   
Depressing weather
A beautiful resource that shows the changing weather conditions experienced by Old Man Beardy as a depression passes over.
   
Depressions
A resource to explore the formation and development of a depression. It illustrates the gradual closure of the warm sector as the cold front undercuts the warm front to produce an occluded front.
   
Synoptic chart
An application showing a synoptic chart.
   
Weather and climate quiz
A general knowledge quiz on weather and climate.
   
World climate zones
An application to illustrate the world's major climatic zones.
   
Climate types: jigsaw
A jigsaw activity where you match the climate types to their descriptions.
   
   
Industry
Geography tetris: types of industry
Is the word in the primary, secondary or tertiary industry? Guide it to the correct flowerpot.
   
Farming as a system
An animated flow diagram illustrating the farm as a system in terms of inputs, processes, outputs and feedback.
   
   
Population
The demographic transition model & population pyramids
Study how the population of a country changes as it develops by looking at trends in birth and death rate at each stage of the demographic transition model.
   
Megacities
A fast-paced game that tests your ability to accurately locate the largest cities on the planet.
   
   
General resources & fun stuff
   
Map paper bank
A collection of useful maps ready for printing.
   
Class scoreboard
If you're playing a game or a quiz and you need to keep score for several teams then this is the tool for you. Choose between a number of themes: 'Alien abduction', 'In your face' and 'Snail race'.
   

Timer
A new improved timer that now includes a countdown timer as well as a standard timer. Some of the alarm sounds are not for those of sensitive disposition. The time is given in Hours, minutes, seconds and hundredths of a second. Handy for timed tests, exams and activities.

 

Class minder
A digital assistant that keeps an eye on your class on those rare occasions when you have to pop out.

   
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