Cyclone provides everything you need for Junior Cycle Geography.
Written by experienced teachers with extensive knowledge of the Junior Cycle Framework, this package provides the perfect blend of clear content, trusted methods and innovation.

• Expertly fosters geoliteracy through clearly written, integrated and linked topics
• A full range of Key Skills activities promotes active learning
• Important geographical skills such as mapwork and data management are taught explicitly and are reinforced throughout the textbook
• Short experiments and clear, everyday examples encourage students to interact with the world around them
• Lively Fun Facts reveal fascinating details of our world, while Not-So-Fun Facts highlight important truths, notably on sustainability
• Geography in the News and My Geography Moments introduce students to important new Classroom-Based Assessments (CBAs)
• End of Chapter Assessments, with graded Must-Should-Could success criteria, provide differentiation, promote reflection and help students to prepare for CBAs
• Suggested Additional Resources on each topic encourage and guide further research

The Cyclone package includes:

• Cyclone Skills Book - Included FREE with the textbook: Written by best-selling Geography author, Charles Hayes, this book includes a comprehensive range of activities and exercises that reinforce content and ensure active, skills-based learning.
• Cyclone Teacher's Resource Book contains detailed work schemes and topic-by-topic suggestions that will enliven Geography in the classroom.
• A suite of digital resources, such as curriculum-focused videos, PowerPoints and quizzes, are all available on GillExplore.ie.

Free eBook of the textbook, with embedded videos, weblinks and quizzes: see inside front cover for details. Adopting teachers also enjoy access to free eBooks of the Skills Book and Teacher's Resource Book. Gill Education eBooks are accessible both online and offline.

The Cyclone Author Team

STACY KENNY is a Geography teacher and deputy principal in Holy Child Community School, Co. Dublin. She has delivered in-service training on the new Junior Cycle for a number of years.

ANDREW HORAN is a Geography teacher in St Kevin's College, Dublin 11. He leads in-service training on mentoring newly qualified teachers.

CHARLES HAYES, Consultant Author and Cyclone Skills Book author, has vast experience as a teacher, examiner, Geography teacher trainer (UCC) and Junior Certificate Geography examination-drafter. He is Ireland's leading
Geography author and his New Complete Geography is Ireland's best-selling Geography textbook and Skills Book.