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Worldbuilder: Create Your Own Country

Make maps, follow rivers, plan towns and build a country that makes sense.

8 Units24 MissionsAbout 5 hours

Complete the Course to Earn a Certificate and Join the Hall of Fame

An imagined island rises from an open atlas, with mountains, a river, farms and towns. An invitation to design a country.
A mapmaker’s table with an invented map, compass, ruler and small terrain models. Plan, compare and revise your own place.

A CLOSER LOOK

A country on a map

Understand how land, water and people connect. Make choices with reasons and improve them when conditions change.

See it. Try it. Make it yours.

  1. A country on a map

  2. Land and moving water

  3. Weather, climate and living things

Beginner geography, roughly ages 9–13; readers who benefit from simple English. · What to know before you start

Bring with you: Read short English sentences, count, compare whole numbers, and add, subtract, multiply and divide small whole numbers. A calculator and help reading are welcome.

Understand how land, water and people connect. Make choices with reasons and improve them when conditions change.

Beginner geography for roughly ages 9–13. Learn how places work, solve planning problems, and make a personal Country Atlas on paper or in a drawing tool. No previous geography course is needed.

By the end, you can…

  • Read and make a simple map. Use a key, directions, grid references and a scale.
  • Explain how land shapes, slow changes in rock and flowing water fit together.
  • Use weather records, sunlight, height and nearby water to explain climate and habitats.
  • Choose places for homes and connect towns. Use facts about people’s needs, land and travel.
  • Plan food, water and power. Compare choices and stay within a simple budget.
  • Explain trade. Plan complete travel routes and another route to use if one closes.
  • Help people reach shared places. Describe culture without assuming everyone is the same.
  • Use facts about dangers to improve a plan. Explain how the parts of your country work together.

For another Course

  • Real territorial disputes, legal recognition of countries, military strategy and detailed government systems.
  • Detailed climate modelling, plate-boundary classification, map projections and advanced coordinate calculations.
  • A built-in freehand map editor or automatic grading of the personal atlas. Creative work uses an explicit self-review; scored tasks check bounded geography decisions.

YOUR LEARNING PATH

One idea leads to the next.

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Unit 1

A country on a map

Read and make a simple map. Use a key, directions, grid references and a scale.

  1. Mission 1 of 24A place you can imagineExplain what a country is and how a map shows its land and water.Up next
  2. Mission 2 of 24Give your map a voiceUse a map key and a north arrow to explain where places are.Up next
  3. Mission 3 of 24Find the right squareFind a place using its column letter and row number.Up next
  4. Mission 4 of 24How far is the journey?Use a map scale to work out a real distance.Up next
Unit 2

Land and moving water

Explain how land shapes, slow changes in rock and flowing water fit together.

Unit 3

Weather, climate and living things

Use weather records, sunlight, height and nearby water to explain climate and habitats.

Unit 4

Places for people

Choose places for homes and connect towns. Use facts about people’s needs, land and travel.

Unit 5

Food, water and power

Plan food, water and power. Compare choices and stay within a simple budget.

Unit 6

Neighbours and journeys

Explain trade. Plan complete travel routes and another route to use if one closes.

Unit 7

A country for everyone

Help people reach shared places. Describe culture without assuming everyone is the same.

Unit 8

Test, improve and share

Use facts about dangers to improve a plan. Explain how the parts of your country work together.

A Debsie Course · Beginner geography, roughly ages 9–13; readers who benefit from simple English.