Public Map for Educators

Teaching resources that bring place, mapping, and citizenship to life.

Children and young people deserve to shape the future of the places they live.

Public Map supports educators to engage learners in critical, place-based inquiry, helping them analyse their local environments, surface lived experience and contribute meaningful insight into decisions that affect their communities.

Through curriculum-aligned teaching packs and digital mapping tools, we enable young people to think long-term, consider wellbeing and sustainability, and see their voices reflected in real-world conversations about planning and change.

Because when young people are involved, decisions are stronger, fairer and more future-focused.

If you'd like to explore us running a workshop for your school, college, university or youth group please get in contact.

Teaching Packs & Curriculum Resources

Ready-to-use materials for the classroom and beyond.

  • Mapping activities for all key stages via our teaching packs
  • Classroom and outdoor session guides
  • Air quality monitoring and citizen science activities with children

School Challenges & Community Projects

Learning that connects to real local action.

  • Structured research projects with off-the-shelf research questions
  • Intergenerational mapping sessions to build community connection
  • Contribution of classroom insight to wider community maps

Training & Development

Skills for educators and learners alike.

  • Online training resources for different age groups and abilities
  • Bespoke face-to-face mapping training with our community mappers
  • Ethics and data management guidance

Helps with: Curriculum delivery · Geography · Citizenship · Digital literacy · Sustainability · Wellbeing · Place-based learning

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Public Map Platform is being led by Cambridge, Cardiff and Wrexham Universities and is part of the Future Observatory - the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition. The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This website does not use cookies and does not collect personally identifying information.