This is Geography 1 Pupil Book - Revised edition

Summary:
'This is Geography' is a major new course for Key Stage 3 Geography aiming to raise standards of teaching and learning through covering less content but doing more learning with it. It offers: -Focus: a streamlined scheme of work which focuses on the essentials and which allows teachers to do in-depth work on real world topics that really matter to pupils - Worthwhile and significant tasks - every unit builds, step by step, towards an engaging and significant final task. These tasks use the full range of learning styles to provide something for all pupils. Equally important they progressively develop skills across the three year course. - Integrated ICT - embedded ICT tasks in the Pupil's Book are supplemented by a separate CD-ROM with interactive eLearning activities to support each lesson with starters, plenaries, games and presentations. All the key visuals from the pupils book are clickable and usable as you wish. The associated Teacher's Resource Book, available in print and as a CD-ROM, supports this Pupil's Book with lesson plans and differentiated worksheets - for homework and class work. The lesson plans and worksheets are also provided on CD for you to edit and customise.

• Less content, more learning!
• A streamlined scheme of work taking advantage of the new flexibility of the revised National Curriculum for Geography.
• Every unit builds from a key enquiry question, step by step towards an engaging and significant final task.
• e-Learning activities provided for each lesson.
• Customisable lesson plans and worksheets in Word or as PDFs.
• Award winning author.

Table of Contents:
Book 1 for Year 7
1 Your place…and mine!
Key question: Is there a place for everyone in your school?
Your challenge: Draw a plan for your school to make it more accessible
2 My spaces
Key question: How can we use maps to show our lives?
Your challenge: Produce a wall chart showing life and how it is connected with the spaces around you
3 Survivor!
Key question: Could Geography help you to survive an island adventure?
Your challenge: Choose ten items that could help you survive on a deserted island
4 City - past, present, future
Key question: Why do people come to live in cities?
Your challenge: Identify problems in 'Metropolis' and plan improvements
5 Shop until you drop!
Key question: How is the way that we shop changing?
Your challenge: Write a children's story about shopping
6 Flood disaster
Key question: How could we be better prepared next time?
Your challenge: Design a flood warning poster
7 What a load of rubbish!
Key question: What should we do with all our waste?
Write a letter to the local council about how to deal with waste
8 Look again at the United Kingdom
Key question: What would a newcomer to the UK want to know?
Your challenge: Make a PowerPoint presentation about the UK for newcomers
Key concept table
Reference map of the UK
Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 map symbols
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements
Where next?

About the Author(s):

John Widdowson is a geography teacher and author of successful and award-winning geography titles. He is the author of the Earthworks series - which twice won the Geographical Association's Silver Award for educational resources and of the Geography Special Needs Support Material used in hundreds of schools all around the country to raise achievement among lower ability pupils.

He has always lived and worked in east London. He knows the area inside out and has seen plenty of changes. The latest, and probably the biggest, is the Olympic Park, right on his doorstep.

'One of the things that attracted me to geography teaching was its potential to get students out of the classroom and into the real world. As a teacher in east London, this is my classroom! So, as more and more schools started to arrive from other parts of the country wanting to see what was happening at the Olympic Park, I decided to offer them an exciting and worthwhile geographical experience. That is why I now run urban geography courses in east London.
 
Like the 2012 Games, I hope it won't just be a four-week wonder.'

This is Geography 3 includes a chapter on the Olympic Games, 'The Olympic Games and Paralympic Games comes to town - What's the secret of a successful Olympic bid?

Readership:
Pupils in Key Stage 3