The Natural World is a comprehensive and the most up-to-date package available for Leaving Certificate Higher and Ordinary Level Geography students.
The Natural World Core Book 1 provides the toolkit to support students to develop the skills necessary to succeed at Leaving Certificate Geography.
Delivers thorough and up-to-date coverage of the key concepts and themes for the Geography course.
Organised into clear and concise chapters and subdivided into topics, making it easy for students to find and review specific topics
Each chapter develops the concepts, supports teacher planning and includes the following to deliver ‘high-quality’ lessons:
Links to prior learning through retrieval practice
Teacher modelled explanations
Opportunities for students to check for understanding throughout learning
Opportunities for guided student practice
Opportunities for independent student practice
Summative progress check
Each chapter begins with a list of learning intentions and key terms, helping students to focus their studies and understand the main points they will be expected to know
A wide range of questions are provided, catering clearly for both Higher and Ordinary level. These include:
‘Check your Understanding’ tiered questioning for every topic, to test students’ knowledge of the key concepts at three different levels: Basic, Developed and Advanced Knowledge
Past exam questions at the end of each chapter
Sample exam question answers serve as a reference point for students to complete their own work. These are available online.
Each chapter contains a knowledge retrieval activity to help consolidate prior knowledge and provide connections to previous topics studied
The ‘Write Like a Geographer’ sections provide an exam question along with a set of explicit success criteria, breaking the question into a series of manageable steps to help students maximise the marks
A section on ‘How to improve geographic writing’ is included, as well as a suggested formula on ‘How to write SRP’s’
Sample exam answers with common mistakes are highlighted to ensure students can identify and avoid these errors and structure a successful response
A ‘Think Like an Examiner’ section at the end of the sample answers online helps students understand what is expected and required
Important case studies are included in each chapter to help improve the analysis synthesis of information from multiple sources, including;
Covid-19 Pandemic, Cost-of-Living Crisis 2022, Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Housing Crisis in Ireland
Recent geographic disaster events such as the Hunga Tonga Volcanic Eruption 2022
Climate Change related geographic events such as Mudslides in Brazil 2022 and Drought in Europe 2022
A variety of different data sets and graphs are also included throughout the text, providing students with an opportunity to develop the key geographical skill of interpreting a wide variety of data from a diverse set of graphs
A wide range of full-colour and appealing maps, diagrams and photos to help illustrate complex concepts and bring the material to life
Important diagrams in the book are drawn in a simple style that enables students to reproduce the diagram in an exam setting
The most up-to-date and age-appropriate explanations on the evolving theories of
plate tectonic
