what Geography is how you can use the skills you learn in Geography class in everyday life skills to help you interpret Ordnance Survey maps how to understand data and show it on graphs about common units of measurement.
ICE-BREAKER ACT VITY
Before you start your Junior Cycle Geography course, answer the following questions in groups of four: 1. List four things that you already know about Geography. 2. Why do you think it is important to study Geography in school? 3. How do you think you will use what you learn in Geography class when you leave school?
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Introduction to Geography
What is Geography? Geography is the study of the world around you. It helps you to explore where you live. It will make you think more about your village/town/city, your country and the whole world!
It also helps you to understand the way the world is physically (what it looks like), socially (the people that live in it and why they live where they do) and economically (the flow of money and goods around the world).
Geography strands
There are three strands in Junior Cycle Geography. They are:
1. Exploring the physical world: looking at the physical world around us and how and why the world is shaped the way it is.
For example, we will look at the formation of soil in Chapter 16.
) Figure 1.2 Soil: the physical substance
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Exploring the physical world
interact with the physical world
Exploring how we
Exploring people, place and change
: Figure 1.1 The strands of Junior Cycle Geography
