The Natural World is a comprehensive and the most up-to-date package available for Leaving Certificate Higher and Ordinary Level Geography students.
The Natural World Core Book 1 provides the toolkit to support students to develop the skills necessary to succeed at Leaving Certificate Geography.
Delivers thorough and up-to-date coverage of the key concepts and themes for the Geography course.
- Organised into clear and concise chapters and subdivided into topics, making it easy for students to find and review specific topics
- Each chapter develops the concepts, supports teacher planning and includes the following to deliver ‘high-quality’ lessons:
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- Links to prior learning through retrieval practice
- Teacher modelled explanations
- Opportunities for students to check for understanding throughout learning
- Opportunities for guided student practice
- Opportunities for independent student practice
- Summative progress check
- Each chapter begins with a list of learning intentions and key terms, helping students to focus their studies and understand the main points they will be expected to know
- A wide range of questions are provided, catering clearly for both Higher and Ordinary level. These include:
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- ‘Check your Understanding’ tiered questioning for every topic, to test students’ knowledge of the key concepts at three different levels: Basic, Developed and Advanced Knowledge
- Past exam questions at the end of each chapter
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- Sample exam question answers serve as a reference point for students to complete their own work. These are available online.
- Each chapter contains a knowledge retrieval activity to help consolidate prior knowledge and provide connections to previous topics studied
- The ‘Write Like a Geographer’ sections provide an exam question along with a set of explicit success criteria, breaking the question into a series of manageable steps to help students maximise the marks
- A section on ‘How to improve geographic writing’ is included, as well as a suggested formula on ‘How to write SRP’s’
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- Sample exam answers with common mistakes are highlighted to ensure students can identify and avoid these errors and structure a successful response
- A ‘Think Like an Examiner’ section at the end of the sample answers online helps students understand what is expected and required
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- Important case studies are included in each chapter to help improve the analysis synthesis of information from multiple sources, including;
- Covid-19 Pandemic, Cost-of-Living Crisis 2022, Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Housing Crisis in Ireland
- Recent geographic disaster events such as the Hunga Tonga Volcanic Eruption 2022
- Climate Change related geographic events such as Mudslides in Brazil 2022 and Drought in Europe 2022
- A variety of different data sets and graphs are also included throughout the text, providing students with an opportunity to develop the key geographical skill of interpreting a wide variety of data from a diverse set of graphs
- A wide range of full-colour and appealing maps, diagrams and photos to help illustrate complex concepts and bring the material to life
- Important diagrams in the book are drawn in a simple style that enables students to reproduce the diagram in an exam setting
- The most up-to-date and age-appropriate explanations on the evolving theories of
plate tectonic
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School Level: ["Secondary"]
Class: ["Leaving Cert"]
Subject: ["Geography"]
ISBN-10: 180230164X
ISBN-13: 9781802301649
Barcode: 9781802301649
Publisher: Edco
Author: Lee O'Donnell
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Product: Book
Format: Paperback / Softback
Edition: 1st Edition
Language: English
Pages:
Weight: 0.302 kg
Publication Date: 2024-04-01
The Natural World is a comprehensive and the most up-to-date package available for Leaving Certificate Higher and Ordinary Level Geography students.
The Natural World Core Book 1 provides the toolkit to support students to develop the skills necessary to succeed at Leaving Certificate Geography.
Delivers thorough and up-to-date coverage of the key concepts and themes for the Geography course.
- Organised into clear and concise chapters and subdivided into topics, making it easy for students to find and review specific topics
- Each chapter develops the concepts, supports teacher planning and includes the following to deliver ‘high-quality’ lessons:
-
- Links to prior learning through retrieval practice
- Teacher modelled explanations
- Opportunities for students to check for understanding throughout learning
- Opportunities for guided student practice
- Opportunities for independent student practice
- Summative progress check
- Each chapter begins with a list of learning intentions and key terms, helping students to focus their studies and understand the main points they will be expected to know
- A wide range of questions are provided, catering clearly for both Higher and Ordinary level. These include:
-
- ‘Check your Understanding’ tiered questioning for every topic, to test students’ knowledge of the key concepts at three different levels: Basic, Developed and Advanced Knowledge
- Past exam questions at the end of each chapter
-
- Sample exam question answers serve as a reference point for students to complete their own work. These are available online.
- Each chapter contains a knowledge retrieval activity to help consolidate prior knowledge and provide connections to previous topics studied
- The ‘Write Like a Geographer’ sections provide an exam question along with a set of explicit success criteria, breaking the question into a series of manageable steps to help students maximise the marks
- A section on ‘How to improve geographic writing’ is included, as well as a suggested formula on ‘How to write SRP’s’
-
- Sample exam answers with common mistakes are highlighted to ensure students can identify and avoid these errors and structure a successful response
- A ‘Think Like an Examiner’ section at the end of the sample answers online helps students understand what is expected and required
-
- Important case studies are included in each chapter to help improve the analysis synthesis of information from multiple sources, including;
- Covid-19 Pandemic, Cost-of-Living Crisis 2022, Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Housing Crisis in Ireland
- Recent geographic disaster events such as the Hunga Tonga Volcanic Eruption 2022
- Climate Change related geographic events such as Mudslides in Brazil 2022 and Drought in Europe 2022
- A variety of different data sets and graphs are also included throughout the text, providing students with an opportunity to develop the key geographical skill of interpreting a wide variety of data from a diverse set of graphs
- A wide range of full-colour and appealing maps, diagrams and photos to help illustrate complex concepts and bring the material to life
- Important diagrams in the book are drawn in a simple style that enables students to reproduce the diagram in an exam setting
- The most up-to-date and age-appropriate explanations on the evolving theories of
plate tectonic
-
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