Key Stage 3 Geography

Geography Pathways Year 8 Teacher’s Resource CD-ROM

Course Information:
Geography Pathways Teacher's Resource CD ROMs

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.

The course introduces key geographical skills and concepts with specific reference to Northern Ireland, exploring a range of themes, resources and thinking strategies to meet the statutory requirements of the new curriculum.

Key Features

  • Themed chapters to cover each of the key elements as outlined in 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 skill categories of managing information, decision-making, demonstrating creativity, team work and self-management.


Additional information

 

The Teacher's Resource CD will provide an integrated course package to support those new to the curriculum and non-specialists. It will be downloadable in a PDF format and will provide guidance about how the course, skills, and components connect together. The resource is also available as editable Word files, which include worksheets, 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.

 

  • Only text written to specifically support the new Key Stage 3 Revised Curriculum for the Geography Strand
  • Editable word files mean teachers can adapt material for their own needs
  • Provides support and guidance on teaching Geography Pathways Year 8 Pupil's book

Authors:

Anne Fegan, Peter Corr, Stephen Roulston

Contents:

  • Part I: About Geography Pathways – A new course for Key Stage 3 in Northern Ireland
  • Why another Geography course?
  • The Teacher’s Resource CD-ROM
  • Geography Pathways Pupil Book 1 and the Key Elements of the Geography Strand
  • Advice on group work
  • Advice on ‘reading photographs’
  • Thinking skills and personal capabilities
  • Planning your Geography teaching for Year 8
  • Part II: Guidance for chapters and features in Pupil Book 1
  • What is Geography? (Pupil Book pages 7–18)
  • Ecosystems and people (Pupil Book pages 19–34)
  • The changing world of work (Pupil Book pages 35–48)
  • Northern Ireland rocks! (Pupil Book pages 49–60)
  • Rain, rain, go to Spain (Pupil Book pages 61–76)
  • Fieldwork: A geographical investigation (Pupil Book pages 77–80)
  • Farming today (Pupil Book pages 81–96)
  • How much do we know about our food? (Pupil Book pages 97–113)
  • What is GIS? (Pupil Book pages 114–119)
  • Geography in the news: What’s it all about? (Pupil Book pages 120–124)
  • Enquiry: The place where I live (Pupil Book pages 125–129)
  • Issues in Geography: Do we want a lignite quarry and power station in Northern Ireland? (Pupil book pages 130–134)

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Geography Pathways Year 8 Teacher’s Resource CD-ROM    978 0 340 94673 2    May 07    £100.00 + VAT