So some people prefer to start from a town and work up with there worlds. You can do that with these Lessons, but You'll have to go backwards lol. I believe in taking a scientific approach to the creation of you world. literally working your way through the history of your planet. First we start off with a basic idea of what you want your planet to look like, for examples I use the real Earth making this a little bit of a Big History/Geological Science lesson as well. Below is some images of Earth, We know want our world to look roughly like the first image but we need to understand how it came to look that way so we can know where mountains and such are, so we then get an idea of what we think the world started off looking like and then work out how it went from beginning to present.
With Earth the Earliest known supercontinent is known as Vaalbara, unfortunately there is little evidence as to how it looked. Later came the first true continents known as Cratons, The second image is that of the cratons in 550 mya. We have Gondwana in yellow, Baltica in green, Austro-Antarctica in blue, Siberia in a sorta lavender, and Laurentia in bright pink. Now between the time of Kenorland and The Cratons there was the three supercontinents, Kenorland, then Columbia, then Rodinia. But the things to really know about are Vaalbara, the first land; The Cratons, the first Continents; and our next map Pangaea, the most well known of them and the last of the great supercontinents (even though technically Eurasia is a supercontinent). Now that we understand the history of the continent formation we can actually begin with making the map.
As a treat for being such good students I give you all a fourth map which is a scientific analysis of what Earth might look like in +250 million years