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Map Skills for Common Entrance Geography & Key Stage 3 John Widdowson

Map Skills for Common Entrance Geography                              & Key Stage 3 By John Widdowson

Map Skills for Common Entrance Geography & Key Stage 3 by John Widdowson


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Prepare pupils for success in the ISEB Common Entrance Geography examination with this concise but authoritative Map Skills course.

Map Skills for Common Entrance Geography & Key Stage 3 Summary

Map Skills for Common Entrance Geography & Key Stage 3 by John Widdowson

Prepare pupils for success in the ISEB Common Entrance Geography examination with this concise but authoritative Map Skills course.

Endorsed by ISEB, this resource covers all essential skills required in using Ordnance Survey maps. It also provides teaching and practice in the use and interpretation of aerial photos alongside Ordnance Survey maps.

- Provides a short introductory course covering all the necessary Ordnance Survey map skills including symbols, grid references, direction, scale, relief, drawing sketch maps and cross sections, using maps for decision making
- Includes six map-based investigations - one for each theme from Common Entrance Geography: Geomorphological processes; Settlement; Weather and Climate; Economic Activities; Tectonic Processes; Environmental Issues
- Includes an Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 map extract

About John Widdowson

John Widdowson is the author of Hodder Murray's Earthworks series. This series twice won the Geographical Association's silver award for outstanding educational material.
Key Adviser: Paul Baker is an experienced teacher and question setter for Common Entrance Geography and is Head of Geography at the Dragon School, Oxford.

Table of Contents

SECTION 1: MAP SKILLS - A BASIC COURSE 1.1 What's special about maps? 1.2 Symbols - the key to using a map 1.3 A sense of direction 1.4 Finding places on a map 1.5 Distance - the long and the short of it 1.6 Relief - the third dimension 1.7 A route with a view 1.8 Sketch maps and cross-sections 1.9 Decision time! SECTION 2: STUDYING MAPS 2.1 Geomorphological processes What is the flood risk in Shrewsbury? Flooding in Shrewsbury, Autumn 2000 2.2 Settlements What patterns do you find in a town? How has Ashford grown? 2.3 Weather and climate What happens to all that water? Would you be safe on the mountain? 2.4 Economic activities How has the Swansea Valley changed? Was it a good location for new industry? 2.5 Tectonic Processes Is it safe to live in Zafferana? Why live so close to a volcano? 2.6 Environmental Issues What can you do in a National Park? How should the park be managed?

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GOR003227831
9780340905029
0340905026
Map Skills for Common Entrance Geography & Key Stage 3 by John Widdowson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Hodder Education
20050630
48
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