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

Case study knowledge is designed to support your teaching of the case studies and named examples required for the physical and human geography papers at GCSE. Comprising knowledge organisers, summary revision activities and exam-style questions with mark schemes and indicative responses, the pack covers all core and optional case studies required for GCSE. Although designed for the AQA specification, Case study knowledge is also relevant for all major exam boards. What’s included? Knowledge organisers for all core and optional case studies and named examples on the AQA specification Summary activities to help with revision Exam-style questions with mark schemes and indicative responses. What’s inside? Human geography case studies and examples A case study of a major city in an LIC or NEE - Mumbai, India An example of how urban planning is improving the life for the urban poor - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil A case study of a major city in the UK Newcastle upon - Tyne, UK An example of an urban regeneration project, reasons it was needed and its features - Salford Quays, Manchester, UK An example of how tourism in an LIC/NEE helps reduce the development gap - Jamaica A case study of one LIC/NEE experiencing rapid economic development - Nigeria An example of how modern industrial development can be more environmentally sustainable - Park Royal, west London An example of a large scale agricultural development, its advantages and disadvantages - The Indus Basin, Asia An example of a local scheme in a LIC or NEE to increase supplies of food - Cape Town, South Africa An example of a large scale water transfer scheme, its advantages and disadvantages - South-North water transfer project, China An example of a local scheme in an LIC or NEE to increase sustainable supplies of water - Bhatha Dhua, Pakistan Physical geography case studies and examples The effects and responses to tectonic hazards in countries of contrasting levels of wealth - Nepal and Chile earthquakes A named example of a tropical storm, its effects and responses to it - Typhoon Haiyan, Philippines An example of an extreme weather event in the UK, its causes, impacts and management - The Beast from the East, UK An example of a small scale UK ecosystem - Avington Park lake, Winchester, UK A case study of a tropical rainforest, causes and impacts of deforestation - Amazon, Brazil A case study of a hot desert, its development opportunities and challenges - Sahara Desert, Africa A case study of a cold environment, its development opportunities and challenges - Svalbard An example of a section of coastline in the UK, its major landforms of erosion and deposition - Borth to Aberwstwyth, West Wales An example of a coastal management scheme in the UK - Mappleton, England An example of a river valley in the UK, its landforms of erosion and deposition - Afon Rheidol, West Wales An example of a flood management scheme in the UK - Banbury, UK