"Exploring Geography" is a series of three books designed for the National Curriculum, Key Stage 3. The books are deliberately planned to progress both in difficulty and to increase in scale from local, to European to World. All three books are based on a comon thematic structure which provides continuity, coherence and the development of key ideas and skills through the course. The first book is intended to make use of the child's local experience and knowledge, the second aims to give pupils a basic knowledge relating to Britain and Europe, while the third gives children an interest in the countries of the world. Each book is split into a number of thematic sections common to all books, and includes a range of materials both textual - passages from novels, newspaper extracts - and illustrative - artwork, cartoons, photographs, satellite images, and maps. Encouraging work and investigation as an individual and in small groups, the book enables links across the curriculum. Clear explanation of key terms is provided through dictionary boxes with each chapter. Activity based, it develops the skills required by the National Curriculum for example interpretation and presentation of maps, diagrams and statistical analysis. The overall aim is to help students gain an understanding and appreciation of issues affecting the physical and human world.

 

This book is part of a book series called Exploring Geography .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 1991 by Pearson Education Limited .

Simon Ross is a Head of Geography at Queen's College, Taunton, and an experienced author.

This book has the following chapters: Sense of place and global location; understanding maps;; weather and atmosphere; landscape and processes; ecosystems; population; settlement; resources and energy; transport and communications; farming in the EC; industry; leisure and recreation.