GCSE Geography for WJEC B (WJG) - Softcover

Leeder, Andy; Owen, Glyn; Andy Owen

9781444187250: GCSE Geography for WJEC B (WJG)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444187252 ISBN 13: 9781444187250

Publisher: Hodder Education, 2013

This revised course is designed to help your students develop the abilities required to achieve exam success for the new WJEC GCSE Geography Specification B.

- Develop students' geographical investigative and analytical skills with activities that use real-place data, maps, photographs and ICT resources

- Provides case studies of real places at different scales and at different levels of development

- Extends students' learning and helps them to research geography in greater depth with 'Going Further' information and activities

- Encourages students to use their understanding of geographical processes and patterns to predict what might happen in the future with 'Geography Futures'
WJEC Specification B is a direct development of the popular Avery Hill course and retains its issue-based, investigative approach to geography. It is based around three themes:
1. Challenges of living in a built environment

2. Physical processes and relationships between people and environment

3. Uneven development and sustainable environments.
Contents

Theme 1 - Challenges of Living in a Built Environment

Chapter 1: Variation in quality of life and access to housing

Chapter 2: Access to services and changing service provision

Chapter 3: Urbanisation

Chapter 4: Planning issues in built environments

Chapter 5: Rural change and planning issues
Theme 2 - Physical Processes and Relationships between People and Environments

Chapter 1: Weather and climate

Chapter 2: Ecosystems

Chapter 3: The issue of desertification

Chapter 4: River processes and landforms

Chapter 5: Coastal processes and coastal management
Theme 3 - Uneven Development and Sustainable Environments

Chapter 1: Employment structures and opportunities

Chapter 2: The location of economic activities

Chapter 3: Economic activity and the environment

Chapter 4: Development

Chapter 5: Development issues and water

Chapter 6: Interdependence
Glossaries also available online at Vocab Express, an interactive learning application.

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Book Description:

This revised course is designed to help your students develop the abilities required to achieve exam success for the new WJEC GCSE Geography Specification B. WJEC Specification B is a direct development of the popular Avery Hill course and retains its issue-based, investigative approach.

About the Author:

Andy Owen is an experienced author and former Geography teacher.
Andy Leeder is an experienced author and Geography teacher.
Glyn Owen is a Head of Geography.

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