The Challenge Menu

Select your 10 challenges from the menu below (keep an eye on these – we will be adding new challenges over the next few days) and add them to your planning sheet.

1. Squish It – Take a photograph of you squishing a physical feature between your thumb and forefinger.
2. Landmark – Create a famous landmark out of food.
3. Tweet – Complete a bird count in the park or garden. The RSPB has a great guide to identifying a bird.
4. Get Out – Take a nature walk in 3 different places. Record the nature you see.
5. Mapimal – Map an animal –  ‘Draw’ an animal using GPS. Google GPS art guide to find out how to do this.
6. Meme – Create a geography meme.
7. Country – Learn about a country you nothing about.
8. Leaf – Find five different leaves and use them to create some artwork.
9. Montage – Create a photo montage for your local area/street/holiday destination.
10. Tourism – Collect tourist leaflets for your local place or holiday destination and evaluate whether they are accurate or not.
11. Pebble – Paint a pebble and leave it somewhere outside for someone to find.
12. Upcycle – Upcycle a piece of furniture or an item of clothing.
13. Trees are good 1 – Map the trees in your street/local area
14. Trees are good 2 – Walk around your local area and identify the trees.
15. Bucket List – Write a bucket list of all the places you would like to visit. Give a reason for each.
16. Sustainable living – Re-design your house for more sustainable living.
17. Sewing Bee challenge– Make or mend. Fight fast fashion by creating an item of clothing or mending a damaged piece.
18. Skilled Up – Learn a new skill from a friend or family member.
19. Sketch it – Read a book and draw/sketch a place that is described.
20. Geocaching – Try out geocaching. Have a look at our quick Geocaching guide.
21. Treasure Island – Hide something for a friend in your local area and create a map/challenge for them to find it.
22. Weather – Keep a weather diary for 7 days. The Met Office has a great, free weather diary template.
23. Cloud challenge – Identify 5 clouds and take pictures of each one. The Met Office has a great guide to cloud types.
24. Field sketch – Create a field sketch of a location that is important to you. Check out our guide to field sketching.
25. Environmental survey – Do an environmental quality survey of your local area. The Field Studies Council has an example of an urban environmental quality survey.
26. Footprint – Calculate your carbon footprint. The WWF has a great carbon footprint calculator you can use.
27. Plastic – Monitor your household’s single-use plastic use for a week. Plan ways to reduce your plastic use.
28. Globalisation – Create a collage of images to illustrate the theme of globalisation.
29. GeoTok – Create a geography-related Tiktok-style video to educate people about something to do with geography.
30. My Maps – Create a Google My Map. You could map your favourite places or locations you have studied in geography. Take a look at our guide on how to create a Google My Map.
31. Pick It – Do a litter pick in your local area (make sure you take appropriate caution when picking litter and wash your hands afterwards!).
32. Get crafty – Create a famous location/feature using Minecraft.
33. OS Map – Create a route using an OS map. Describe the route using only directions, grid references and symbols. You can access OS maps for free using Bing Maps. We’ve got a guide to this here.
34. Watch It – Watch a geographical documentary and produce a summary of it. You could produce an infographic, notes or poster. Dual coding is a great way to present information. You could also use the Cornell Notes method of note-taking.
35. Open – Create your own geography-related challenge.