This is Geography 1 eLearning Activities CD-ROM

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 has been thoroughly revised to reflect the concept based approach of the revised National Curriculum.

It offers:

- an enquiry based approach
- a streamlined scheme of work
- worthwhile and significant tasks
- integrated ICT

This CD ROM provides e-learning activities to support and extend the use of Pupil Book 1 - including web-based searches, animations, video clips, pictures, whiteboard activities and much more

• eLearning activities for the interactive whiteboard or networked computers to support the teaching of lower secondary Geography
• Dynamic visuals (including photos, maps, diagrams and illustrations) for you to display, annotate and label, enlarge, reduce or crop or to import into your own presentations
• Animated demonstrations of important geographical skills such as using grid references, drawing sketch maps or using a scale
• Hyperlinks to web-based resources, and web-based investigations
• Drag-and-drop activities and games to test or reinforce understanding
• Video clips to introduce lessons or demonstrate geographical ideas
• On screen writing frames or sorting frames to help pupils improve their understanding and share their ideas with others

Table of Contents:
Unit 1
1.1 Meet Nancy
1.2 What problems are faced by wheelchair users?
1.3 School plan: wheelchair friendly?
1.4 Your own school plan
1.5 Plan view: what is it?
1.6 Wheelchair friendly classroom?
1.7 How did Nancy feel?
How to … draw a scale plan
Unit 1 Glossary – Anagrams
Unit 1 image bank
Unit 2
2.1 How are these friends connected?
2.2 How am I connected?
2.3 ICT support – maps
2.4 View from a classroom window
2.5 How not to … draw a sketch from a photo!
2.6 View from our classroom window
2.7 Map symbols
2.8 Your own map symbols
2.9 Match the symbols to the correct grid references
2.10 Penalty shoot-out!
2.11 Your national connections
2.12 Your global connections
How to … draw a sketch
How to … measure distance on a map
How to … use grid references
Unit 2 Glossary – Match the words
Unit 2 Image bank
Unit 3
3.1 What will you take?
3.2 Your Diary starters
3.3 Explore your island
3.4 Read your map
3.5 The water cycle
3.6 Sources of fresh water
3.7 Pitching your tent
3.8 What’s for lunch?
3.9 Saved by geography!
3.10 What have you learned so far?
How to … interpret contour lines
Unit 3 Glossary – Blockbusters
Unit 3 Image bank
Unit 4
4.1 Manchester
4.2 Manchester – your first impressions
4.3 British cities
4.4 Help Agricola make a decision
4.5 Placenames – clues to the past!
4.6 The history of Manchester
4.7 The changing face of Manchester
4.8 ICT support – population graph
4.9 Population growth in Manchester
4.10 Coming from the mill
4.11 Jaydev’s story
4.12 Manchester living graph
4.13 Manchester today
4.14 Potato wharf
4.15 ICT support - a weekend away in Manchester!
4.16 Twenty-first century Manchester
4.17 Metropolis – plan a better city
How to … draw a sketch map
Unit 4 Glossary – Hangman
Unit 4 Image bank
Unit 5
5.1 Solve the mystery - why is Grocer Jack working as a lollipop man?
5.2 The changes in Ogden Bridge
5.3 Comparing shops
5.4 Convenience or comparison?
5.5 Shopping quiz
5.6 Shopping survey questionnaire
5.7 Shopping survey results
5.8 Internet shopping
5.9 ICT support – shopping
5.10 What’s the problem?
How to … draw a pie chart
Unit 5 Glossary – Guess the word!
Unit 5 Image bank
Unit 6
6.1 Flood misery in Sussex
6.2 Causes, effects and responses
6.3 Lewes flood disaster concept map
6.4 Josh’s flood diary
6.5 Flood damage
6.6 Background to the flood 1
6.7 Background to the flood 2
6.8 The River Ouse
6.9 Rivers and flooding
6.10 Flooding in the centre of Lewes
6.11 Hydrograph for the River Ouse
6.12 ICT support - flood risks
6.13 To the rescue
Unit 6 Glossary – Match the words!
Unit 6 Image bank
Unit 7
7.1 One family’s rubbish
7.2 Inputs and outputs
7.3 Where does the rubbish go?
7.4 Landfill, incineration and recycling
7.5 ICT support- Friends of the Earth
7.6 Landfill, incineration or recycling?
7.7 What should we do with all our waste?
Unit 7 Glossary – Wordsearch!
Unit 7 Image bank
Unit 8
8.1 What a newcomer to the UK might want to know
8.2 Look again…
8.3 Which country, which flag?
8.4 Piece together the map
8.5 Sort out the confusion! Quiz
8.6 Label the British Isles
8.7 When and why did they come?
8.8 How dense?
8.9 Population density in the UK
8.10 What’s the weather like today?
8.11 Nice or nasty?
8.12 Environmental quality chart
8.13 Primary, secondary or tertiary?
8.14 Who will you vote for?
8.15 PowerPoint presentations – top tips!
Unit 8 Glossary – Crossword!
Unit 8 Image bank

About the Author(s):
John Widdowson was 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 is a curriculum development expert and currently a Geographical Association consultant on their curriculum making project and a contributor to the Geographical Association's Teaching Geography handbook.

Readership:
Geography teachers in secondary schools