Geography Pathways Year 10 Teacher's Resource CD-ROM

Summary:
Geography Pathways is an innovative Key Stage 3 course written for the new CCEA Northern Ireland curriculum. The series aims to provide comprehensive coverage of the Geography requirement of the Environment and Society criteria of the curriculum. A key feature of the course will be the emphasis on the role of skills acquisition and the interconnection of skills across the curriculum as defined by CCEA.

Course features include:
· Themed chapters to cover the key elements of the new curriculum.

· Clear learning intentions for each chapter to enable a pupil-centred learning experience.

· Get Active tasks to promote understanding through thinking and learning strategies using the five thinking skills and personal capabilities: managing information, decision-making, demonstrating creativity, team work and self-management.

The Teacher's Resource CD-ROM contains PDFs and editable Word documents providing guidance on how the course, skills and components connect together. It also provides worksheets, artworks and templates, a sample scheme of work and advice on how to get the best out of the Get Active tasks.

The author team are experienced Geography teachers and advisers.

Table of Contents:
About the book
Developing ICT skills
1 Our changing world
2 Threatened fragile ecosystems
3 Water: the most precious resource
4 Cotton on to this!
5 Plastic oceans
6 Is everyone playing fair?
If the world was an orange
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Geographical Issue: The Panama Canal
Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Geography matters
Millennium goals
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements

About the Author(s):
The author team are experienced Geography teachers and advisers.