Collins Keystart UK Atlas
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A comprehensive atlas programme for 7 to 11 year olds, the atlas is organised into themes: Skills, Water and Landscape, Settlement, Environment, Citizenship and Places. Each spread is devoted to a single topic and the maps are supported by text, photographs, illustrations and simple graphs. The variety of material allows the integration of different strands of the geography curriculum: enquiry and skills, knowledge and understanding of place, patterns and environmental change, sustainable development. New topics link to citizenship.
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Collins Keystart World Atlas
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This atlas is organised into themes: Skills, Water and Landscape, Settlement, Environment, Global citizenship and Places. Each spread is devoted to a single topic and maps are supported by text, photographs, illustrations and simple graphs. The variety of material allows the integration of different strands of the geography curriculum: enquiry and skills, knowledge and understanding of place, patterns of environmental change, sustainable development and citizenship.
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Collins Student World Atlas
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Collins Student World Atlas has been specifically designed for students aged 14-16 years, however its well-researched uncluttered design makes it easy for all student use. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated. It features 128 pages of up-to-date reference and thematic mapping, 8 pages of World country-by-country statistics and a fully comprehensive index to all names appearing on reference maps. Thematic maps and accompanying graphs and tables adhere strictly to the National Curriculum guidelines and cover topics such as Tourism, Telecommunications, Environmental and socio-economic topics. Extensive lists of statistics for demographic and socio-economic facts provide up-to-date data for students wishing to create their own graphs to support individual geography, tourism, mathematics, economics or IT projects.
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Collins School Atlas
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An introductory atlas for secondary schools, perfectly designed to support and motivate Key Stage 3 students in geographical and mapping skills. It features 96 pages of clear, easy to read maps, satellite images, an atlas skills section and hundreds of statistics. The atlas is designed to help students develop map, atlas and data handling skills. The content adheres closely to the requirements of the National Curriculum and incorporates results of classroom testing. Its clear and accessible layout will motivate pupils of all abilities at Key Stage 3 and S1-S2. An easy to follow introductory 'map and atlas skills' section, useful for both teacher and pupil, is followed by clear, easy to read reference maps presented with locator maps, fact boxes and flags, descriptive text, detailed map keys and photos. For this new edition more detailed reference mapping of the British Isles is included. The extended world section in this edition covers all the global issues required by the National Curriculum e.g. climate, population, biomes, earthquakes and volcanoes. economic facts provide up-to-date data for students wishing to create their own graphs to support individual geography, tourism, mathematics, economics or IT projects.
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Folens Ordnance Survey World Atlas
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Designed for students at Key Stages 2 & 3, this atlas is divided into four useful sections – The World, The British Isles, Historical & Mapping Skills. It successfully addresses central curriculum themes on weather, economic activities, communications, population and the environment including natural disasters and wildlife. Each region of the World has a combination of Ordnance Survey mapping and a skilful presentation of the major issues facing that region. A well-written and superbly presented product, this young person’s atlas will ensure many hours of rewarding enquiry and general use in the classroom.
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Folens Ordnance Survey UK Atlas
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This excellent atlas, written by award-winning authors, is designed for use at Key Stages 2 & 3. Includes sections on physical geography, geology, rainfall, temperature (summer/winter), rivers, communications networks and political breakdowns. A special section provides regional statistical data and highly detailed Ordnance Survey mapping for each UK region. A full place name and features gazetteer is also included. Facts and figures on UK and Europe population, consumer’s habits and production are also highlighted. Guaranteed to inspire and inform the young geographer.
48 pages. Size: 210 x 280 mm. Softback. |
Collins Junior Atlas
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Collins Junior Atlases are designed to expand and develop pupils' geographical knowledge in preparation for Secondary School. The Junior World Atlases have a strong UK focus, featuring topic maps, satellite imagery and photography to help put mapping information into context. These resources enable you to teach pupils about the world today and include the latest facts and statistics, provides larger scale maps of countries and regions popular for focus studies.
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Collins World Watch: A Visual Guide to the current State of the World
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A visual guide to the current state of the world's demographic, economic and environmental situation, its trends and future predictions.
Each spread tells a story with easy to read graphical presentation. Each topic is presented by clear world maps, tables, graphs and photographs. Through thematic maps it illustrates the extent and complexity of development patterns, successes and failures and comparative outcomes. It draws on the authoritative statistics from the World Bank's World Development indicators.
The content includes an introduction to the World Bank development indicators and recognised World Bank economic regions; 30 illustrated spreads of world mapping/text and photographs presenting current issues affecting the population, economy and the environment; extensive tables of facts and definitions and a topic index.
Key topics include
- Population
- The world's growing, ageing, mobile population
- Health
- Standard of living and access to health services
- Economy
- Global economic development
- Environment
- The effect of changing climate, sea level change and major environmental changes
Each spread has a balance of mapping and statistical information represented as graphs and/or statistical tables, fact boxes, illustrations/photographs supported with narrative text.
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