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Free Educational resources
Ordnance Survey provides many useful free resources for geography. These are suitable for teachers, students and youth groups as online interactive learning pages or as documents to download and print. These include; map reading made easy, the national grid, up-to-date free outline maps of Great Britain for class work, A4 map symbol sheets and map symbol flashcards.
Map work
All of these resources are based around the use of Ordnance Survey maps, and were devised by educational experts.
Mapzone
Mapzone is Ordnance survey's website for children. There are; online games, trivia quiz, homework help, Geograph and GIS Zone.
Election Maps
Ordnance Survey Election maps – designed to help the understanding of the electoral geography of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Map symbols
A4 copies of map symbol sheets of the OS ExplorerTM and Landranger® mapping available to download.
Map symbol flashcards
A fun way of learning map-reading skills, the OS ExplorerTM and Landranger® flashcards are available to download.
Great Britain outline maps
Outline maps of Great Britain, with or without administrative boundaries, available to download.
