Packed with beautifully designed and detailed maps, this world atlas is the perfect companion for young geography students. First published in 1988 and now in its 9th edition, Student World Atlas has been fully revised and updated. With 290 maps in total, it combines larger, traditional reference maps with smaller topic maps. These topics include industry, farming, climate, population, and the environment. Each theme will engage students, expanding their understanding of Earth and also making possible comparisons between different regions. For example, this student atlas not only displays an impressive map of the Caribbean, but highlights the hurricanes that continually threaten these islands and the people that live there. Then move to New Zealand map and learn about its diverse population of Polynesians, European settlers, and many other immigrants that make up this multicultural nation. On every page, you will discover more and more fascinating facts about each country's landscape and its inhabitants. In addition to maps, this clear and accessible atlas also includes up-to-date statistics and flags for every country. It distills the huge mass of information available about our world down to the essential facts needed for the effective and successful study of our ever-changing planet.

Travel through the countries of the world and learn about weather landscapes and everyday life. This exciting series explores aspects of human and physical geography via accessible text and engaging images that support National Curriculum requirements.|Travel through the countries of the world and learn about weather landscapes and everyday life. This exciting series explores aspects of human and physical geography via accessible text and engaging images that support National Curriculum requirements.

Take a trip around the world to see amazing lakes that have formed on Earth.

This particular category focuses on our beautiful planet Earth. Replete with valuable information and amazingly beautiful photographs, these encyclopaedias will surely carve a special place in the minds of the young readers.

This handbook is rich with practical advice on engaging and inspiring learners, and teachers, in geography lessons. Containing everything a new or improving geography teacher could wish to know, this book provides step-by-step guidance on creating outstanding learning opportunities that prepare students for life, as well as for success in their examinations. Award-winning author and former head of geography Brin Best brings a wealth of experience and a unique blend of rigour and practicality to the subject, presenting fresh, exciting and creative ideas on how to get the most from your geography lessons. The book contains advice on everything from planning schemes of work and lessons, making the most of opportunities for learning outside the classroom and available ICT to cross-curricular links, thinking skills and examples of best practice. With reflective questions and activities, scores of lesson stimuli and a host of useful links, this book is an essential addition to every geography teacher's toolkit. Each title in the Handbooks series is a comprehensive guide to preparing to teach, teaching with confidence and making the most of assessment in secondary schools. Each handbook contains practical advice for teachers, from working with Teaching Assistants to guidance on continued professional development, as well as plenty of strategies for making lessons stimulating, cross-curricular and fun!

Drip, drop, plop, rain falls from the sky. Rain turns dirt into mud and makes puddles on sidewalks. It also helps flowers grow. But where does rain come from? The answer is at your fingertips. Just open this book and read about the wonders of rain.

Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Geography, presented in global contexts. - Develop conceptual understanding with key MYP concepts and related concepts at the heart of each chapter. - Learn by asking questions for a statement of inquiry in each chapter. - Prepare for every aspect of assessment using support and tasks designed by experienced educators. - Understand how to extend your learning through research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities. - Think internationally with chapters and concepts set in global contexts.

This book provides write-in practice specially designed to support students aiming for success at GCSE. It has been carefully written to build students' familiarity and confidence with the content and skills required. Accessible, clear and thorough, this exam practice book engages all your students. Clearly-written using Oxford's popular On Your Marks approach, it focuses on planning, writing, and marking answers supported with sample answers at a range of levels, with marked and annotated versions pointing out good practice and useful tips. Motivating exam practice - including two complete sets of exam papers based on the Edexcel B sample assessment materials - reinforces this rigorous approach. In addition, guided answers and mark schemes will be provided online.

A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the AQA 2016 GCSE Geography qualification Written for the AQA GCSE Geography specification for first teaching from 2016, this print Student Book fully covers the new AQA GCSE Geography qualification. This full-colour book includes differentiated activities providing support for weaker students and stretch for more able students. Test your progress pages provide regular assessment practice and opportunities for students to check their progress, and a dedicated section on skills development helps to reinforce understanding. This Student Book also includes specially written decision-making exercises, guidance on carrying out fieldwork plus activities to help develop fieldwork skills, and a range of up-to-date UK and international case studies.

This teaching guide accompanies the new paperback editions of Volcano, Earthquake, Wild Weather, and Fire and Drought in the Natural Disasters strand of Go Facts (ages 8-10). It provides lesson plans and photocopiable resources for teaching non-fiction skills through guided reading and writing. The reading lessons in this guide are designed for small groups. The writing lessons are suitable for group work or for the whole class. The lessons are clearly cross-referenced to the teaching objectives of the revised Framework for teaching literacy.

Explore the world's seven continents and five oceans in this fantastic, globe-trotting series. Each book discovers one of the world's continents and its surrounding oceans with detailed maps, engaging photographs and age-appropriate text. Readers will be able to identify the location, countries, landscape, climate and wildlife of each continent.

Support your students to achieve their best grade with the ultimate course companion; providing clear and concise explanations of all syllabus requirements, with exam practice questions to check understanding and consolidate revision. - Fully prepare for the final assessment with examiner advice on how to approach and explore each topic, including additional top tips and common mistakes. - Practice and revise effectively from a range of strategies and a variety of high achieving example answers. - Focus revision by using key terms with definitions listed for each topic and subtopic of the course. - Answers available to download for free: www.hoddereducation.co.uk/ib-extras

Find your way around our world and take a journey through mapping you wouldn't expect with this interesting look at maps and mapping. Not just for directions maps are used to track and study weather people money and more. In this fascinating series human and physical geography combines with technology and science to look at how we map the world around us and our lives within it. From globes and atlases to OS maps and sat-nav there are many ways of mapping our physical world. This title takes a look at how we map the land we live on.|Find your way around our world and take a journey through mapping you wouldn't expect with this interesting look at maps and mapping. Not just for directions maps are used to track and study weather people money and more. In this fascinating series human and physical geography combines with technology and science to look at how we map the world around us and our lives within it. From globes and atlases to OS maps and sat-nav there are many ways of mapping our physical world. This title takes a look at how we map the land we live on.

Each World Sport book reveals an ideal location for learning a particular technique essential for mastering the sport, from trimming a surfboard along a wave in Wind and sea, California, to catching big air on a snowboard in the half-pipes of Whistler, Canada. Opening with perfect beginner locations and techniques, the complexity develops, leading readers through to expert-only locations and techniques, building an understanding of technique and equipment as they go.

Where on Earth is the UK? Where are koalas from, and who lives on Antarctica? From landscapes to animals, cities to people and languages to food, this series will let readers take a trip to each continent. It's time to travel around the Earth.

It might seem lonely at the top of the world, but the North Pole is teeming with life! Polar bears, walruses, and arctic seals make their home on sea ice that can be nine feet thick while the Inuit and other indigenous peoples continue their traditions and means for survival in this harsh climate. Along with the early twentieth-century story of Robert Peary's egomaniacal quest to reach the exact spot of the North Pole, this is an exciting new addition to the Where Is? series.