Summary:
Exploring Geography in a Changing World is a new Key Stage 3 series designed to present real-life geography to motivate and stimulate pupils. With challenging content, engaging practical activities and an emphasis on ‘thinking skills’ pupils can achieve a solid foundation of knowledge and skills for progression to GCSE.


Book 1 explores a range of place-based content from the UK including the Boscastle flood, quarrying in the Peak District and the development of the 2012 Olympics site in London.


Opportunities for fieldwork are provided throughout the course, and pupils relate the content to the real world through the Issues activities at the end of each chapter.

• Challenging content for real-life geography
• Aimed at middle- to high-achieving pupils
• Each year of the course is focused on a different scale, from the local environment and the UK in Year 7, Europe in Year 8 and the global environment in Year 9.
• Key geographical themes are explored and revisited throughout the course
• Each theme concludes with an issues-based decision-making task, relating the content pupils have covered to the real world
• Opportunities for fieldwork are developed throughout
• Full coverage of the new national curriculum

About the Author(s):
Simon Ross is a Head of Geography at Queen's College, Taunton, and an experienced author.

Readership:
KS3