The Natural World - Pack A - Leaving Certificate Geography

The Natural World - Pack A - Leaving Certificate Geography

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, including:
  • ‘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 and 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 tectonics.

• Comprehensive and up-to-date package for Leaving Certificate Geography students.
• Core Book 1 supports the development of necessary skills for exam success.
• Organised into clear and concise chapters for easy review and study.
• Includes 'Check your Understanding' tiered questioning for all levels.
• Features sample exam answers with common mistakes highlighted.
• Incorporates real-world case studies, including the Covid-19 Pandemic and Climate Change events.
• Full-colour maps, diagrams, and photos bring complex concepts to life.
• Contains a ‘Write Like a Geographer’ section with explicit success criteria for exam preparation.
• Includes a section on 'How to improve geographic writing'.
• Most up-to-date explanations on plate tectonic theories.