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This selection of teaching activities have been developed as part of the Society's Geography Ambassador Programme.

These #ChooseGeography activities aim to provide inspiration and context to students who may be considering studying geography at the next educational stage, be that GCSE, A Level or beyond. The activities highlight the skills that geographers develop and use, the wide range of themes and issues that are covered by the study of geography, and the types of careers that geographers can be found in.

These activities could be used by:

  • Teachers who wish to embed short activities into their schemes of work to highlight career pathways and encourage uptake.

  • Teachers who wish to run longer Choose Geography or careers focused lessons, as a selection of these activities could be used to cover a full lesson worth of material.

  • Undergraduate or Professional Ambassadors, who can visit your school to run sessions for your students.

  • Any teacher, student or professional who is running a careers session or talking about why they have studied geography, including careers fairs, options evenings, geography clubs.

These activities can be used to cover a 'Why I love geography' / 'Why study geography' theme, looking at the wide range of topics and themes that geography covers, as well as being adapted to focus on a specific topic or career genre. 

A hand holding a fan of playing cards. The background is black and you cannot see the colourful side of the cards, only the back

Card task

Describing a picture and key term without using specific wording

An empty cardboard box, placed on its side so you see see inside it

Hot topics box

Exploring the geographical links and connections linked to a range of objects

A group of people sitting on a wall but you can only see their feet dangling over the side.

Vote with your feet

Encouraging students to use geographical knowledge to form opinions

A selection of bunched up newspapers, the prominent one reads 'World Business'

Geography in the news

Finding geographical links and themes in news and current affairs

Timmy Mallet's mallet, a pink and yellow soft toy in the shape of a mallet with eyes, nose and mouth and glasses to look like the face of Timmy Mallet

Mallet's Mallet

A geographical word association game

a residential area where flood water has risen; the flood water is almost reaching the downstairs floor windows and a white car is almost fully submerged.

Single image task

Finding connections and exploring themes using images

A hand holding a red marker pen is writing 'skills' onto a clear screen which shows a silver cog-like diagram

Geographical skills audit

Investigating what makes geographers stand out from the crow

A female cartoon superhero dressed in yellow and black, under which there is a caption saying 'Francisca works to champion black geographers'

Geography Superheroes

Using geographical role models to highlight skills and careers

A Union Jack flag and the flag of the EU flying on a blue background

Multiple image task

Finding geographical connections using image collections