Geographical applications and skills

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Fiona Sheriff
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Designed to support your teaching of the GCSE applications paper, Geographical applications and skills is a comprehensive teaching pack to be used throughout your GCSE programme of study.

The pack includes teaching notes, PowerPoint presentations, activities and student workbooks to develop your students’ knowledge, understanding and application of geographical skills.

Geographical applications and skills covers all the skills and fieldwork required for GCSE.

What's included?

  • teacher notes and PowerPoints to walk you through all the different skills and fieldwork techniques required
  • activity sheets and workbooks for students to practise key skills
  • divided into different geographical skills and fieldwork themes, so finding what you need is easy.

What's inside?

Teacher notes

  • Geographical applications and skills personal learning checklist
  • Graph types
  • Data map types
  • Geographical skills match-up activity
  • Teacher answers for student workbook
  • Teacher answers for PowerPoints

Student work

  • Mean, median, mode and interquartile range
  • Calculating area
  • Atlas skills – describing patterns
  • OS map symbols
  • Four- and six-figure grid references
  • Compass directions
  • Scale and measuring distance
  • Latitude and longitude
  • Synoptic charts
  • Cross sections
  • Ground, satellite and aerial photographs
  • Drawing sketches from photographs
  • Labelling and annotating photographs
  • Using maps and photographs together
  • Labelling and annotating diagrams
  • Data key terms – sampling and data types
  • Bar charts and histograms
  • Divided/compound bar charts
  • Line graphs
  • Calculating percentages and creating a pie chart
  • Pie charts
  • Scatter graphs
  • Dispersion graphs
  • Pictograms
  • Proportional circles
  • Triangular graphs
  • Star and radial diagrams
  • Kite diagrams
  • Desire lines
  • Flow lines
  • Choropleth maps
  • Population pyramids
  • Interpreting graphs
  • Fieldwork enquiry questions
  • Fieldwork data collection
  • Sampling
  • Methodology
  • Evaluating methods
  • Dictionary/glossary

This sample is from the applications and skills student workbook.

Four- and six-figure grid references

It is important to be able to locate places using four- and six-figure grid references. A four-figure grid reference will locate a particular square on the map. A six-figure grid reference will pinpoint a location such as a school, bridge or hospital.

Hint: Remember to give the Easting first and then the Northing. Always go from the bottom left corner of the square. For example, the four-figure grid reference for the heart is 00 03.

Give the four-figure grid reference of the following symbols.

  1. Square: .........................................................................................................
  2. Cloud:.........................................................................................................
  3. Circle:.........................................................................................................
  4. Cross:.........................................................................................................
  5. Moon:.........................................................................................................

Remember to always go from the bottom left-hand corner of the square when giving a grid reference. Use the middle of the symbol as your starting point.

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Have you used this resource?

Great resources for this lockdown period, would love an answer book to go with it so we can quickly check answers.

Robin Williams

24/02/2021

5

10/11/2020

5

19/05/2020

What a wonderful resources........geography teaching made so interesting and simple......Framed on a right concept

Shibu RAj

08/05/2020

Great resources for this lockdown period, would love an answer book to go with it so we can quickly check answers.

Robin Williams

24/02/2021

5

10/11/2020

5

19/05/2020

What a wonderful resources........geography teaching made so interesting and simple......Framed on a right concept

Shibu RAj

08/05/2020

Thanks so much for sharing this resource. It will save me an enormous amount of time!

Georgina Hartley

29/04/2020

Thanks for such an incredible resource. I'm from Liberia. My students will definitely love GEOGRAPHY as a profession!!!

Solomon T. Marlee

24/04/2020

Very thorough coverage of skills and fieldwork techniques. Thanks for sharing it.

Martin Borri

16/04/2020

Thank you for sharing this during this time of on line learning. Useful in Australia too

Kylie Young

15/04/2020

This is a brilliant resource. I am using it in conjunction with the FSC virtual fieldwork week. Students will watch the live virtual fieldwork sessions then answer questions in the workbook. The PPT presentations will provide extra information. I will then go over these when more normal lessons resume.

Jon Bryson

14/04/2020

Thank you for sharing this.

DJ S

14/04/2020