Geographical applications and skills
Designed to support your teaching of the GCSE applications paper, Geographical applications and skills is a comprehensive teaching pack to be used throughout your GCSE programme of study.
The pack includes teaching notes, PowerPoint presentations, activities and student workbooks to develop your students’ knowledge, understanding and application of geographical skills.
Geographical applications and skills covers all the skills and fieldwork required for GCSE.
What's included?
- teacher notes and PowerPoints to walk you through all the different skills and fieldwork techniques required
- activity sheets and workbooks for students to practise key skills
- divided into different geographical skills and fieldwork themes, so finding what you need is easy.
What's inside?
Teacher notes
- Geographical applications and skills personal learning checklist
- Graph types
- Data map types
- Geographical skills match-up activity
- Teacher answers for student workbook
- Teacher answers for PowerPoints
Student work
- Mean, median, mode and interquartile range
- Calculating area
- Atlas skills – describing patterns
- OS map symbols
- Four- and six-figure grid references
- Compass directions
- Scale and measuring distance
- Latitude and longitude
- Synoptic charts
- Cross sections
- Ground, satellite and aerial photographs
- Drawing sketches from photographs
- Labelling and annotating photographs
- Using maps and photographs together
- Labelling and annotating diagrams
- Data key terms – sampling and data types
- Bar charts and histograms
- Divided/compound bar charts
- Line graphs
- Calculating percentages and creating a pie chart
- Pie charts
- Scatter graphs
- Dispersion graphs
- Pictograms
- Proportional circles
- Triangular graphs
- Star and radial diagrams
- Kite diagrams
- Desire lines
- Flow lines
- Choropleth maps
- Population pyramids
- Interpreting graphs
- Fieldwork enquiry questions
- Fieldwork data collection
- Sampling
- Methodology
- Evaluating methods
- Dictionary/glossary
This sample is from the applications and skills student workbook.
Four- and six-figure grid references
It is important to be able to locate places using four- and six-figure grid references. A four-figure grid reference will locate a particular square on the map. A six-figure grid reference will pinpoint a location such as a school, bridge or hospital.
Hint: Remember to give the Easting first and then the Northing. Always go from the bottom left corner of the square. For example, the four-figure grid reference for the heart is 00 03.
Give the four-figure grid reference of the following symbols.
- Square: .........................................................................................................
- Cloud:.........................................................................................................
- Circle:.........................................................................................................
- Cross:.........................................................................................................
- Moon:.........................................................................................................
Remember to always go from the bottom left-hand corner of the square when giving a grid reference. Use the middle of the symbol as your starting point.
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