World studies for kids, grade by grade

What does Maya teach in world studies?

41 written lessons, from grade 1 to grade 10, based on the Israeli school subject moledet — home, community and the land. In grade 2: a map of the home, map legends, who helps in town, days in a month. In grade 3: north is up, the compass, towns and villages, desert and green land, Israel’s seas. In grade 4: mountains, valleys and coasts, which way water flows, and why water is precious. In grade 5: once and now.

Some lessons are about Israel’s own geography — the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, the Negev desert, water — and some teach skills that work anywhere: reading a map, finding a direction, understanding a community.

How does a lesson with Maya go?

A world-studies lesson with Maya starts from what the class did today — say, maps and legends — and goes like this:

• Your child tells Maya what the class learned today, or shows her a photo of the worksheet.
• Maya teaches that topic with them, in short steps, at their grade.
• She asks questions they answer with a tap — no typing, no blank page.
• When an answer is wrong, she does not just say “try again”. She explains why that answer was tempting, and what was missing to reach the right one.
• She remembers what did not land, and comes back to it in later lessons.

Which children are the world-studies lessons for?

Children in grades 1 to 6, roughly ages 6 to 12. The lessons start from the home and the neighbourhood and widen out to the whole country.

They also suit a child who finds maps hard: Maya builds the map step by step, from the view from above to the legend.

What world-studies mistake does Maya catch?

Ask a third grader where north is, and a common answer is “where the sun rises”. It is tempting because the sun is the first thing children use to find a direction.

Maya explains why it seemed sensible, then puts it straight: the sun rises in the east. On an ordinary map, north is at the top, east is to the right and west is to the left.

And if you turn the map around, the arrow still says where north is — that is the idea your child takes away.

Is Maya safe for a young child?

Maya is built for children with a parent nearby, and the rules are written into her legal pages, not just promised on this one.

• Maya does not ask a child for an email address, a precise location or a friend list.
• There is no chat between children, no public feed and no ads in the lesson.
• Lessons that go through a language model stay locked until a parent confirms a link sent to their email.
• From the parent screen you can pause those lessons and delete the copy kept in the cloud.
• Children’s information is not sold, and there is no targeted advertising.

The full details are in the children’s privacy notice and the safety page, linked at the bottom of this page.

Maya or a private tutor: which does your child need?

Both help, but they answer different needs. Here they are side by side:

A human tutor is the better choice for exam preparation, for teenagers, for practising a spoken language, and for a child who needs a person beside them. Maya is for the everyday: the evening after school, when a topic did not land and nobody is free to explain it again.

You can also have both: if your child sees a tutor once a week, Maya can cover the other evenings.

Questions parents ask