The Natural World – Pack A

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 tectonics