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