Summary:
Endorsed by ISEB, Map Skills for Common Entrance Geography provides a concise but authoritative Map Skills course for prep schools preparing candidates for the Common Entrance examination.

It covers all essential skills required in using Ordnance Survey maps at 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 scales. It also provides teaching and practice in the use and interpretation of aerial photos alongside Ordnance Survey maps – an increasingly important feature of Common Entrance Geography.

Section 1 provides a short course covering essential map skills including symbols, grid references, direction, scale, relief, drawing sketch maps and cross sections, using maps for decision making.

Section 2 applies those skills to six map-based investigations – one for each theme from Common Entrance Geography: Geomorphological processes; Settlement; Weather and Climate; Economic Activities; Tectonic Processes; Environmental Issues

This book is equally usable in maintained schools as it covers the core skills required for National Curriculum Key Stage 3 Geography.

The book comes with an Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 map extract for pupils to use with Section 1.

Teacher's Material, including answers to activities and worksheet templates, is available to download free of charge from www.hoddersamplepages.co.uk/geog.htm

• Endorsed by ISEB

• Map-based enquiries linked to a best-selling textbook and award-winning series
• Straightforward introduction to basic map skills
• Covers all the core map skills required for National Curriculum Geography and Common Entrance Geography

Table of Contents:
SECTION 1: MAP SKILLS - A BASIC COURSE
1.1 What's special about maps?
1.2 Symbols - the key to using a map
1.3 A sense of direction
1.4 Finding places on a map
1.5 Distance - the long and the short of it
1.6 Relief - the third dimension
1.7 A route with a view
1.8 Sketch maps and cross-sections
1.9 Decision time!
SECTION 2: STUDYING MAPS
2.1 Geomorphological processes
What is the flood risk in Shrewsbury?
Flooding in Shrewsbury, Autumn 2000
2.2 Settlements
What patterns do you find in a town?
How has Ashford grown?
2.3 Weather and climate
What happens to all that water?
Would you be safe on the mountain?
2.4 Economic activities
How has the Swansea Valley changed?
Was it a good location for new industry?
2.5 Tectonic Processes
Is it safe to live in Zafferana?
Why live so close to a volcano?
2.6 Environmental Issues
What can you do in a National Park?
How should the park be managed?

About the Author(s):
John Widdowson is the author of Hodder Murray’s Earthworks series. This series twice won the Geographical Association’s silver award for outstanding educational material.

Key Adviser
Paul Baker is an experienced teacher and question setter for Common Entrance Geography and is Head of Geography at the Dragon School, Oxford.

Readership:
Pupils in prep schools