Mongolia | Hello World
Meet children in Mongolia and begin exploring everyday life, landscapes and culture through a child-centred introduction.
Journey across Mongolia’s vast steppe, mountain ranges and Gobi landscapes while exploring gers, horses, food and living traditions.
Mongolia lies between Russia and China in East and Central Asia. It is one of the world’s most sparsely populated countries, with a capital city, Ulaanbaatar, alongside immense rural landscapes.
These resources invite your family to notice how geography, climate and movement shape homes and daily life—without treating every Mongolian family as the same.
Meet children in Mongolia, gather a few quick facts and look closely at the structure of a traditional ger.
Meet children in Mongolia and begin exploring everyday life, landscapes and culture through a child-centred introduction.
A quick overview touching on Mongolia’s geography, capital, currency, history and distinctive landscapes.
Look inside a portable round home and notice how its lattice walls, roof poles, felt covering and central opening work together. In Mongolia, this home is called a ger.
Enter a traditional tale about a confident shepherd, surprising tests and the value of humility.
Laurence Yep retells a lively Mongolian folktale in which a shepherd named Mongke hopes to marry the Khan’s daughter and learns that good fortune is not the same as wisdom.
Look more closely at nomadic life in western Mongolia, learn about salty milk tea and review the lesson with a quiz.
A cinematic visit with Kazakh nomadic families in western Mongolia, including horses and eagle hunting. Preview for children who may find hunting scenes difficult.
See how suutei tsai is prepared and discover why this everyday Mongolian tea is milky and savoury rather than sweet.
An interactive quiz to revisit Mongolia’s geography, landscapes, homes and culture.
Follow your curiosity into portable homes, hardy animals, the Gobi and Mongolia’s dramatic seasons.
Investigate how a ger can be packed and moved, why Mongolian horses are small and hardy, how two-humped camels survive the Gobi and what happens during a dzud.
How might your home, food and daily routines change if you lived through Mongolia’s grassland summers and very cold winters?
Take this topic further with our beautifully illustrated printable lesson, made for exploring together at home.
Cross open grasslands and discover how homes, animals and traditions connect with Mongolia’s landscapes.
£6.99
Every Sunday we release a new wonder-led lesson: one big question for your family to explore together at home. Here’s this week’s.
Follow the wonder of moving pictures, meet early cinema pioneers and begin a small film story of your own.
£6.99