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GCSE Geography is changing in 2009.

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GCSE Geography for WJEC A and B

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WJEC A and BWJEC have two Geography specifications – A and B. Both have been fully updated and modernised for today’s classroom and will be supported by a full suite of Hodder Education resources. We have been working with an expert author team to produce the best possible resources to help your students achieve the highest possible grades.

Why should I choose WJEC?Over 3500 schools take a GCSE with WJEC, this number is increasing year-on-year because of the personal and efficient service that WJEC provide. WJEC also have experienced examiners and other experts, including the subject officer who is a Geographer and is available to discuss any concerns or enquiries.

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What is new about WJEC A? (find out more on page 7)

• The content has been revised to make the specification more up-to-date and relevant

• Unit 1 has 6 core topics which are all compulsory

• Unit 2 offers 6 optional themes of which students must take 4

• Unit 3 is the controlled assessment

• The specification is now written in terms of key questions and enquiry questions to make the specification less prescriptive

• The individual fieldwork enquiry has been simplified in scale and a second enquiry using secondary data has been introduced

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What is new about WJEC B? (find out more on page 3)

• It has been directly developed from Avery Hill and retains its distinctive ethos but the content has been modernised and brought up-to-date

• Has a simple structure and an easy to administer style

• Has a strong emphasis on human geography

• Paper 1 tests students on the three themes covered in the specification – challenges of living in a built environment; people and the natural world interactions and people, work and development

• Paper 2 is a cross-unit problem solving paper

• The third element of the course is the controlled assessment

GCSE Geography for WJEC Specification B Student’s Book978 0 340 98373 7 March 2009•£17.99

GCSE Geography for WJEC Specification B Dynamic Learning CD-ROM978 0 340 98528 1 June 2009•£350.00 + VAT

GCSE Geography for WJEC Specification B Revision Guide978 0 340 98796 4 October 2009•£7.99

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GCSE Geography for WJEC Specification B This is a new course for GCSE Geography for WJEC Specification B written by an expert

team of teachers and examiners, including Andy Owen and Colin Lancaster who wrote the coursebook for the previous Avery Hill specification.

GCSE Geography for WJEC Specification B from Hodder Education has been designed to help students develop the abilities required to achieve exam success and is the only endorsed book for the GCSE Geography for WJEC B course.

Why choose GCSE Geography for WJEC Specification B?

aIt has been directly developed from the popular Avery Hill specification so you can carry on teaching this course if it works for you and your student

aIt provides the complete package for you and your students. Just one Student’s Book and 1 CD-ROM provides all you need for the GCSE, along with a dedicated revision guide, which provides plenty of exam practice, making the course fantastic value for money

aThe Student’s Book contains everything your students need for the course and includes a wide variety of activities to engage them; helping them to develop geographical skills

aThe course is fully supported by our Dynamic Learning software which provides a range of interactive activities as well as additional examination practice and teaching materials.

aThe content is perfectly matched to the new WJEC Specification B which has been modernised for today’s classroom; it contains up-to-date case studies so your students can see how geography is relevant to them.

aA dedicated revision book, written by Stuart Currie, the WJEC Chief Examiner, will also be available in the Autumn

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‘Hot topics’ enable

your students to

see how geography

is relevant to them

Flow chart

explains topics

clearly

Images engage

your students

and provide

talking points

Weblinks direct

students online

so they can

discover more

for themselves

‘Going Further’

extends students’

learning to help

them to research

the topic in greater

depth

ICT activities allow you to integrate ICT into your lessons and develop students’ geographical investigation skills

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Pages taken from the WJEC B Student’s Book

Clear annotations make concepts easy for your students to understand

Weblinks direct

students online

so they can

discover more

for themselves

Detailed instructions given to provide guidance and support

Enquiry

questions

engage your

students

Graphs provide students with opportunities to practice their graph interpreting skills

Table shows

statistics

clearlyActivities use real-place data to make Geography more interesting for your students

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Practice exam papers help your students to prepare for the exam

Lots of exam

support is

included to help

your students

to achieve

exam success

PowerPoint

presentations are

included which

provide an ideal

introduction to

key topics

Web-based

GIS activities

encourage students’

mapping analysis

skills and use of

online resources

Advice on the requirements of the controlled assessment unit to help you with this new approach

Useful teaching

resources to

make your life

easier Links to online activities to encourage your students to research topics in depth and to enable you to incorporate ICT into your teaching

GCSE Geography for WJEC B Dynamic Learning CD-ROMDynamic Learning provides the necessary curriculum enrichment for students. Lessons explode into life with video clips, photos and illustrations, web links, animations, quizzes and interactive activites, helping you to make the most of your whiteboard.

Hints and tips

from the examiner

are included to

help students

avoid common

pitfalls

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GCSE Geography for WJEC Specification A: Core Topics978 0 340 98374 4July 2009•£12.99

GCSE Geography for WJEC Specification A: Option Topics978 0 340 98375 1January 2010•£12.99

This is a 2-book course that fully supports all aspects of GCSE Geography for WJEC Specification A, written by an expert author team.All core human and physical units are thoroughly covered in the Core Book using enquiry questions to engage and motivate your students and encourage them to think about geographical issues for themselves. The Option Topics Book covers all the human and physical options units.

Key features include:

aGeographical futures activities to encourage students to contextualise and apply their learning

a Examination-style questions and exam tips with advice on the cross-unit task to give your students the best chance of exam success.

Practice exam papers help your students to prepare for the exam

Creative activities allow your students

to develop their skills in writing

about geographical issues

Case studies

enable students

to explore real

places

A variety of sources keep students engaged

GCSE Geography for WJEC A

A range of activities are provided that enable students to develop their geographical skills

Bar chart

clearly

presents

information

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Andy Owen is an experienced teacher and expert author. He has also acted as a consultant to the WJEC and has been involved in the latest revisions of both their specifications. He is currently teaching in a Specialist Humanities College and has published several textbooks since the early 1990s.

“I was thrilled to be asked by the WJEC to help structure the new Specification A and I have really enjoyed writing this book. I was closely involved in the revision of the specification and the whole project has been an exciting opportunity to retain the important elements of a traditional GCSE geography course whilst also addressing some serious contemporary issues relating to poverty, development, health and climate change. I hope this book will help students to make sense of our fast changing and globalising world and that it

inspires them as well as providing them with the necessary skills and understanding they need to succeed in the course.

I have taught the existing ‘Avery Hill’ course for more than 15 years, so when the specification was revised I was delighted to have the opportunity to revise this text for GCSE Geography for WJEC Specification B. This new book reflects the distinctive issues based ethos of the specification. It supports students in dealing with decision making exercises and also focuses on a few carefully chosen case studies to support their knowledge and understanding. I am very proud of the finished product and will enjoy using it with my GCSE students.”

“Whenever I write, I always think of my own classroom first. If what I am writing is effective, innovative and challenging for my pupils then I have done a good job. I must enjoy using the material and it must be better than what I used before. These geography texts do this. Describing processes and then allowing pupils to discover and explain the patterns they see before them has been at the core of my teaching. In these texts I was able to add up-to-date factual information and new Case Studies that allow pupils to make sense of the World around them.”

Colin Lancaster is an experienced teacher and author and has been working alongside Andy Owen for five years. His present role is as Professional Tutor to trainee teachers. He has previously worked with Channel 4 as the teacher advisor and design consultant on the award-winning CD-ROM The Amazonian Experience.

ISBN: 978 0 340 991541

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Stuart Currie has been involved with Avery Hill Geography since its inception in the early 1970s. He is an experienced teacher, coursework moderator and examiner who has been instrumental in many of Avery Hill’s developments. His current work furthers the ethos and principles of Avery Hill through his involvement in the development of the WJEC Geography Specification B, the new specification that derives directly from Avery Hill. Stuart has written a number of textbooks and revision guides, all of which adopt the same student-centred approach to learning.

“There are two strands to examination success in any subject. The first, quite obviously, is for the students to develop as full a competence in the subject as they are capable of doing. The second, and equally important strand, is to be able to fully demonstrate these abilities throughout the assessment process.

This Revision Guide is not a factual guide to geography in general, neither is it intended to replace the teacher. I have, rather, written it only for students of WJEC Specification B with the aim of encouraging them to use their classroom learning to explore and practice activities and approaches designed to maximise their examination performance. The emphasis is on actively engaging the students in tasks designed to reinforce their classroom learning and to fully familiarise them with the variety of techniques used by their examiners.”