Digimap for Schools

Digimap for Schools: Enhancing geography teaching with digital mapping

Digimap for Schools is a comprehensive online mapping tool that enables teachers to enhance their geography lessons. The platform provides access to high-quality Ordnance Survey maps at all scales for Great Britain, alongside aerial, historical and global maps that can be used both in the classroom and for remote learning.

About the platform

Digimap for Schools offers a comprehensive suite of functions and tools specifically designed for learning, mapping and exploring:

• Learning: Support pupils in understanding and investigating their world whilst gaining crucial digital, spatial and data skills
• Mapping: Access modern and historical digital maps, alongside detailed aerial imagery
• Exploring: Engage and inspire pupils to be curious and fascinated about the world around them.

Resources for primary teachers

Try these free specially designed activities from Digimap for Schools to support your teaching of geography in the primary classroom:

• My Geography Glasses - An introduction to map reading
• Artful Maps - Creative mapping activities
• Map Detectives - Investigative mapping skills
• Picture Detectives - Visual geography exploration
• Treasure Hunt - Engaging map reading activities

Browse all Digimap for Schools learning resources for primary.

Resources for secondary teachers

The following free activities from Digimap for Schools are ideal for supporting learning in KS3 and KS4 geography and building students’ geographical skills:

• Temperature, Precipitation and Population Studies
• World Biomes
• Tectonics, Volcanoes and Mountain Ranges
• River Channel Changes
• Coastal Spits Analysis
• GIS and Health Geography
• GIS and Urban Geography

Browse all Digimap for Schools learning resources for secondary.

Digimap for Schools guidance and training

The Digimap for Schools YouTube channel provides additional guidance and activity ideas.

To find out more about Digimap for Schools and access a free trial to explore the platform's features, visit their website.

Supporting resources from Teachit

Explore these complementary mapping and geographical skills resources from Teachit:

Primary geography

• Map making with aerial photos - Practical activities using aerial imagery
• Parks mapping and fieldwork pack - Local area investigation resources
• Making messy maps - Creative mapping activities
• Where is my school? - KS1 local geography exploration
• Introduction to grid references - Using the Somerset Coal Canal

Secondary geography

• What is a map? - Core mapping concepts
• Understanding contour lines - Relief and landscape interpretation
• Creating map cross-sections - Advanced mapping skills
• Cartographic skills pack - Comprehensive mapping activities
• Mapping data revision exercises - Exam preparation materials
• Mapping earthquakes and volcanic eruptions - Tectonic hazard mapping
• Creating choropleth maps - Population density mapping skills

For more secondary geography mapping resources, visit the Teachit Geography map skills collection.