How did the geography student drown?..........His grades were below C-Level 🌊🌊

Who is the Penguin’s favorite aunt?.................................................Aunt-Artica ⛄🐧

What is the Capital of Mizoram?................................................................... M 😅😅

Where do fish keep their money?.................................................River-Banks 🌉🌉

What are Plateaus?..................................................Highest form of Flattery!! 🗻🗻

 

Jokes may be silly, but geography is surely not.

This is a very important subject. Our entire understanding of our surroundings is dependent on study of geography. A lot of visualization is needed to understand the subject and lot of things have to be understood and memorized to master the subject.

So, in this blog we are highlighting a few online resources which can be used to practice geography. This is in continuation of our blog series on Maths, Science, Englishand History. Hope you have checked out all those and you will now love the geography resources too.

Your comments motivate me and allows me to improve the quality and coverage of my blogs. If you like it, then please do comment and let me know what all other areas you would like me to cover in my blogs.

Here are my top picks of geography resources

1)      https://gramener.com/indiamap/

There is a single map resource on this site. It allows to you color code (and change the color code) of various states in the country. At second level, the tool allows you to color code various districts in each of the states and change their color code too. It is an extremely elementary tool, but can be quite engaging for students in lower class as they can play around with colors and in the process get a good hold over the names of various states and their districts.

The color codes are to be changed using numbers. Same numbers will denote the same color on the map. This is where teachers and parents can use this creatively to create competition in students or make them practice on individual basis. For e.g instructions can be given to students that states where rice grows are to be marked with same color or costal districts in Gujarat are to be marked with a specific color etc.

2)      https://mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org/

As we had the Nasa website in our blog on online science resources, National geographic makes its way into our list of online resources for geography. The Interactive Map Maker tool on National geographic is a very engaging tool. It gives you a world map to begin with. Point the cursor and its shows you the latitude and longitudes of the place. Click on various countries and it gives you a detailed write up on all those countries along with key highlights of each of these nations. Some countries are even covered with the help of a video. Students can paste legend on various parts of the map. The legends range from simple numbers to highlight location to images of various crops, industries, seasons etc. Even lines and various shapes can be drawn on the map. Text box are there to highlighted key aspects of some regions. Post this, the system allows you to save your maps and share it with your friends. Teachers can give an assignment of map plotting on this and all students can do their labelling share the screenshot or email the url back to their teachers. The site has recently been updated to be compatible with tablets too.

 

3)      https://www.3dgeography.co.uk/geography-of-india

This is not a core Indian curriculum-based site. The site covers geography topic on various countries like US, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan and Kenya. The section covering Indian geography is very comprehensive. It covers a lot of informative text and images. Various maps and images will help students understand geography very well. Facts of India is also a very interesting section. The videos and worksheet are also very different and have good graphics. Some worksheets are really engaging and will test out students understanding of geography.

The general information on various topics like the various water bodies, land forms, weather, forests etc. is also very useful to students. It may not be directly in context to Indian subcontinent, but nonetheless the conceptual clarity will surely follow.

Overall, this is a very well-designed geography content. The premium content is available on paid basis, but the free resources are quite good enough too.

4)      https://www.edudose.com/gk/indian-geography-quiz/

Edudose.com is a hard-core quizzing site. It has a good collection of questions on Indian geography. All questions are structured in MCQ format making it very engaging for students. There are no resources like videos or ppts or worksheets. Visit other sites for these resources and come back to this one to test how well you have understood the subject.

 

5)       https://www.tutorialspoint.com/geography/geography_online_quiz.htm

This is another quizzing site. However, compared to edudose.com this site has quizzes on various topics of geography like physical, climate, natural vegetation, soil, mineral, transport, disaster etc. This topic wise coverage makes the site easy to navigate. The type of questions are generally more relevant to higher classes. The additional feature, is that along with right answers, a brief explanation is also provided with each answer. This is very useful.

 

6)      https://www.twinkl.co.in/resources/ks2-around-the-world/ks2-around-the-world-asia/ks2-around-the-world-india

This is a site with a huge assortment of worksheets and handouts. The major content is directed towards the learning needs of primary section/lower classes. The worksheets can be easily downloaded and used for practicing geography. The resources are arranged grade wise and you will get a mix of subject coverage. Hence you can practice on a variety of subjects. The site requires registration and login to download each worksheet. Though, the registration is free of cost. Overall, this is a good worksheet collection and will help students for various subjects, along with geography too.

Hope you will find these 6 websites useful to practice geography and have a better understanding of the concepts in the subject. I am sure your kids and your students will enjoy and get engaged with the subject using these resources.

Awaiting to hear from you all in the comments section

Happy Learning !!!