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GEOGRAPHY Book 1: Years 7-8

A narrative approach is designed to attract and engage middle years students of Geography. The key feature of this series is the use of narrative to deliver content. Students are taken through imaginary journeys and experiences where content is contextualised. While facts and skills are methodically woven into the stories, source material and activities provide a natural extension of the narrative.

The two year book (Years 7&8) has been developed to correlate with the Victorian Essential Learning Standards Level 5. Students will acquire rigorous core geography skills through the investigation of authentic sources, materials and diagrams that are strongly related to the gripping narrative content.

Geography resources:

• Book 1 Years 7-8
• Book 2 Years 9-10
• Atlas inc Interactive eAtlas !

Geography Textbook 1 Years 7 & 8

Key features: a two year textbook comprehensively written for the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) Level 5 ten exciting narratives making geography meaningful for your students written sources, maps, photos, diagrams, integrated with the narratives a range of authentic source material provided for investigation geography skills developed in context key terms highlighted and defined in a glossary for each chapter activities catering to a wide range of abilities and learning styles comprehension, conceptual and creative activities drawing closely on the approaches of the thinking curriculum, including multiple intelligences check and reflect section featured in each chapter, for consolidation and allowing students to reflect on their own learning.

Contents

1. Mapping: Interpreting the environment

• The mission begins / Types of maps
• Mission plans / Using BOLTSS
• Topographic maps
• Looking for a needle in a haystack / Interpreting maps
•  Emergency! / Contour lines and cross sections
•  A race against time / Photographs and images
• Rescue in sight / Resources
• More to explore / Latitude and longitude
• Time zones
• Check & reflect / Glossary

2. Endangered species: Saving our future

• Endangered species – an overview
• The Grey Nurse: 300 and counting down / The Grey Nurse shark
• The Grey Nurse (continued) / Habitats
• The Grey Nurse (continued) / Threats
• The Grey Nurse (continued) / Management strategy
• The snow leopard: the hunter and the hunted / Snow leopard habitats
• The snow leopard (continued) / Conservation
• The snow leopard (continued) / Hunting and breeding
• The snow leopard (continued) / Threats
• The African elephant: cold–blooded murder! / African elephant distribution
• The African elephant (continued) / Habitat
• The African elephant (continued) / Population
• The African elephant (continued) / Threats
• Australian endangered species
• Check & reflect / Glossary

3. Australian environments: From caves to cities

• Types of environments
• Buchan caves / Buchan caves
• Buchan caves (continued) / Formation of the caves
• Melbourne / Melbourne – maps
• Melbourne (continued) / Melbourne characteristics
• Dinner Plain / Mt Hotham climate
• Dinner Plain (continued) / Mt Hotham vegetation
• Fraser Island / The Hervey Bay whales
• Fraser Island (continued) / Fraser Island
• Arnhem Land / Oenpelli climate
• Climate maps and graphs
• Check & reflect / Glossary

4. Deserts: Changing landscapes

• The world’s deserts
• A strange dream? / Sahara Desert - climate
• Strange awakening / Types of deserts
• Sahara Desert / Sahara Desert - threats
• Gobi Desert / Gobi Desert - climate
• Gobi Desert (continued) / Deserts and dust storms
• Gobi Desert (continued) / Gobi Desert - facts
• Simpson Desert / Simpson Desert
• Simpson Desert (continued) / Birdsville
• Home / Alice Springs
• Topographic maps
• GPS tracking
• Check & reflect / Glossary

5. Equatorial rainforests: The lungs of the Earth

• What is an equatorial rainforest?
• Liana / Layers of an equatorial rainforest
• Liana (continued) / The nutrient cycle
• Amilton / Amazon Indians
• Amilton (continued) / Development of the rainforest
• Luciane / Landless farmers and ranchers
• Luciane (continued) / Landless farmers
• Guedes / Transnational corporations
• Guedes (continued) / Development of the rainforest
• Guedes (continued) / The importance of biodiversity
• Developing a geographical inquiry / How to present your work
• Check & reflect / Glossary

6. Earthquakes and volcanoes: Violent Earth

• Earth and the solar system
• Earthquake rocks San Francisco / Earthquakes
• Earthquake chaos / Effects
• Montserrat—volcano eruption / Effects
• Living with a volcano / Structure of a volcano
• Battle of the plates / Plate movement
• Stages of a volcano
• Tsunami strikes / Phuket
• Tsunami aftermath / Effects
• Life after the tsunami / Lampuuk
• Check & reflect / Glossary

7. Weather and climate: Rain, hail or shine

• Understanding the weather
• Ella’s amazing gift / The Sun, weather and climate
• Ella’s dreams / Water and clouds
• Ella’s discovery / Air pressure
• Clouds / Fieldwork
• Ella’s premonition / Weather maps and satellite images
• Ella the hero / Thunder and lightning
• Climate
• Check & reflect / Glossary

8. Hazards: Bushfires, droughts, cyclones and floods

• What are hazards?
• Red alert / Bushfires
• The fire spreads / Surviving bushfire
• Cyclone warning / Surviving a cyclone
• Cyclone on the rampage / Cyclone tracks
• Ann Anchovy’s and Peter Pelican’s stories / El Niño and La Niña
• Drought / Case study: 1982–83 drought
• I love a sunburnt country—not! / Case study: Water use and abuse
• Flood / Preparing for flood
• Flood sets in / Floods in Australia
• Flood hydrographs
• Check & reflect / Glossary

9. The Pacific: Paradise under threat

• The Pacific Region
• Rarotonga, Cook Islands / Natural characteristics
• Aitutaki, Cook Islands / Cyclone effects
• Namuamua Village, Fiji / Rural environments
• Suva, Fiji / Urban environments
• Nan Madol, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia / Ruins
• Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia / Countries of the Pacific
• Nauru / Impact of mining
• Tarawa, Kiribati / Global warming in the Pacific
• Managing ocean resources
• South-East Asia—a comparison
• South-East Asia—human characteristics
• South-East Asia—economics and environment
• Check & reflect / Glossary

10. Environmental issues: Water and ice

• Water in our world
• The water pump / The water cycle
• The water skier / Water consumption
• The water maker / Rainfall
• The water carrier / Water supply
• The water cleaner / Water pollution
• Antarctica—I’m off! / Climate in Antarctica
• Antarctica—killer whales / Antarctic wildlife
• Antarctica—tragedy / Tourism in Antarctica
• Distribution patterns
• Antarctica—post traumatic stress / Working in Antarctica
• Antarctica—friend or foe? Environmental issues
• Check & reflect / Glossary

 

Geography Workbook 1 for Years 7 & 8

Key features: for homework or classroom use a range of written activities closely related to the textbook extension and consolidation activities in each chapter detailed research activities to develop investigative and analytical skills activities requiring higher order thinking and problem-solving skills numerous activities incorporating ICT.

Geography Student CD 1 for Years 7 & 8

The fully interactive student CD's key features include: ability to use on students' home computers, laptops, or on school networks a range of interactive modules to revise the content of each chapter a scoring sheet which tracks students’ progress through the interactive quizzes which can be saved and emailed to the teacher or printed editable chapter revision worksheets (students can complete and email to the teacher) research activities, each with a step-by-step guide to using a particular learning technology includes the eText (textbook as PDF).

Geography Teacher's Resource Kit 1 for Years 7 & 8

Key features: teaching and learning program for each chapter workbook solutions an extension worksheet and consolidation worksheet for each chapter an assessment task and revision test for each chapter multiple intelligence worksheets emergency lessons geography scaffolds and templates to assist students by saving time on basic tasks plus Teacher’s CD (PC only) with editable versions of everything provided. CD-ROM Specifications PC only Intel Pentium III Processor or higher Windows 2000, XP Microsoft Office 97, 2000, XP 64Mb or more of installed RAM (128Mb if running Acrobat Reader 7) Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 5 or higher

 

Geography Textbook 2 Years 9 & 10

Heinemann GEOGRAPHY 2 is designed to engage middle years students of Geography by immersing them in real-life contexts. Students will acquire rigorous core geography skills through the investigation of authentic sources, materials and diagrams that are strongly related to the gripping narrative content.

Geography Textbook 2 Years 9 - 10

Each chapter is based around a gripping narrative that subtly weaves in a host of key facts and knowledge. Students will acquire core Geography skills through the investigation of authentic sources, photographs, maps, diagrams all thematically linked to the high-interest narratives. Included free with this textbook is a Student CD-ROM suitable for use on the students' home computers or on school networks. It contains a range of interactive modules, animations and a revision worksheet for each chapter, as well as a PDF version of the textbook.

Contents

1. Geospatial skills

• Understanding geospatial concepts
• Types of maps
• Elements of maps
• Topographic maps
• Maps, graphs and statistics
• Photographs and satellite images
• Map and photo sketching
• Fieldwork
• Computers in Geography
• Making links

2. Water: Part of life

• The water cycle
• Rainfall: where and why
• Rivers change the land
• Investigating local waterways
• Rivers on maps
• Too much water: Bangladesh
• Too little water: Australia
• Narrative: living with the water cycle
• Making links

3. Plate tectonics: What’s going on beneath our feet?

• What is meant by plate tectonics?
• Plates on the move
• What happens when plates move?
• What do earthquakes and volcanoes have to do with plate tectonics?
• What are ‘hot spots’?
• How dangerous is it to live in a region affected by tectonic activity?
• How have plate tectonics affected Australia?
• Narrative: Volcanic eruption — Mt Vesuvius, March 1944
• Making links

4. Coasts: Where land and sea join

• A variety of different coasts
• Natural processes that shape coastal environments
• Features formed by destructive wave processes
• The process of longshore drift
• Features produced by deposition
• Managing coasts: how do we prevent destruction?
• Anglesea: a coastal community
• Narrative: coasts – environmental disaster looms
• Making links

5. Natural environments: Where nature and people interact

• People and mountains: adapting to a natural system
• Farming in the mountains
• Deserts and people: water is critical
• Farming in the forest
• People and the Gold Coast
• Narrative: orang-utans and people
• Making links

6. Land degradation: A sinister disease

• How can this sinister disease ruin land?
• How can water be a problem?
• Why is salinity the silent disaster?
• Wind erosion: what's the problem?
• Desertification: Earth’s creeping plague
• How can the challenge of land degradation be met?
• Narrative: China – living in a loess environment
• Making links

7. Climate change and global warming

• What is all the fuss about?
• The greenhouse effect and enhanced greenhouse effect
• What are the greenhouse gases, and where did they come from?
• Global warming
• Impacts of climate change: weather
• Impacts: coastal areas
• Impacts: ecosystems and habitats
• Impacts: agriculture
• Impacts: human health
• Combating global warming
• Narrative: Climate change and global warming
• Making links

8. Growth and change in Australian cities

• Australian cities
• Functions of cities
• Landuse zones within Melbourne
• Melbourne sprawl
• Regional city development: Ballarat
• Urban change and renewal: Docklands
• Change in landuse and function at Docklands
• The future of Docklands
• Narrative: one city, two faces
• Making links

9. Cities: Are they sustainable?

• The distribution of global cities
• The megacity
• What about sustainability?
  Case study 1: London
  Case study 2: New York
  Case study 3: Mumbai
• Narrative: Mumbai’s ‘cockroaches’
• Making links

10. Poverty: A global problem

• The Human Development Index
• The rich and the poor nations
• Defining poverty
• What are the causes of poverty in the world?
• Burma: a case study of a less developed country
• Poverty in wealthy countries
• Responses to poverty
• Narrative: poverty causes illegal immigration
• Making links

11. Food, hunger and technology

• Feeding the world’s growing population
• Patterns of food consumption in the world
• Reasons for differences in global food consumption
• What factors affect global food production?
• Technological changes in food production
• Narrative: China considers the use of genetically modified rice to solve its food problems
• Making links

12. Changing the world — for the better?

• Forwards or backwards: is the world changing for the better?
• Large-scale projects: dealing with large-scale problems
• Selling and making resources
• Foreign aid: a solution to poverty?
• Tourism: instant development?
• Narrative: Sonny Tran, tour guide
• Making links

Geography Workbook 2 Years 9-10

This workbook can be used in class or at home and contains a wide variety of enjoyable activities to further develop and practise the Geography skills introduced in the textbook. They range from shorter comprehension and analysis tasks through to longer protect-type activities to enhance students' communication, ICT and thinking process skills. Extension work is also provided.

Geography Student CD 2 Years 9-10

The fully interactive student CD's key features include: ability to use on students' home computers, laptops, or on school networks a range of interactive modules to revise the content of each chapter a scoring sheet which tracks students’ progress through the interactive quizzes which can be saved and emailed to the teacher or printed editable chapter revision worksheets (students can complete and email to the teacher) research activities, each with a step-by-step guide to using a particular learning technology includes the eText (textbook as PDF).

 

Geography Teacher's Resource Kit 2 Years 9 - 10

Key features: teaching and learning program for each chapter workbook solutions an extension worksheet and consolidation worksheet for each chapter an assessment task and revision test for each chapter multiple intelligence worksheets emergency lessons geography scaffolds and templates to assist students by saving time on basic tasks plus Teacher’s CD (PC only) with editable versions of everything provided. CD-ROM Specifications PC only Intel Pentium III Processor or higher Windows 2000, XP Microsoft Office 97, 2000, XP 64Mb or more of installed RAM (128Mb if running Acrobat Reader 7) Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 5 or higher

 

Heinemann 4th Edition Atlas

Key features:   32 extra pages of content, including: World Issues – which    examine pressing concerns of the contemporary world; extra pages devoted to World Themes, including an analysis of the    Indian Ocean tsunami; dramatic satellite images; and an    expanded World Statistics section offering even more valuable    data than in previous editions

Our e Atlas contains: a careful balance between visual and textual elements clarity, accuracy and consistency of all maps, keys and     illustrative material  themes and developments in Australia relevance to all years of secondary-school courses involving     Geography  interactive skills modules a link to the online world statistics database map building – eLayered maps  worksheets animations, including how tsunamis occur

	Atlas Student Workbook  closely tied to individual pages of the Atlas enables students to use their Atlas more often and with more confidence  variety of activities, facts and questions  targets a range of student abilities available individually, or as part of the Atlas 4th Edition Pack
	Teacher's resource book  worksheets exhaustively cover a huge range of topics answers included can be used in conjunction with any world atlas available individually