Oxford Big Ideas Geography Australian Curriculum Student Book + obook/assess

• Explicitly integrates content and skills from both strands of the Australian Curriculum Geography:
  • Geographical Knowledge and Understanding
  • Geographical Inquiry and Skills.
• Provides comprehensive coverage of ‘Concepts for geographical understanding’ – concepts are clearly explained and supported with worked examples, then revisited with increasing complexity throughout each chapter to reinforce student understanding.
• Organises learning around meaningful inquiry-based questions, or big ideas, that are closely mapped to the content of the Australian Curriculum: Geography.
• Provides a complete teaching and learning program from Year 7 to 10 across a range of print, digital, and blended resources.

The obook is a cloud-based web-book available anywhere, anytime, on any device, navigated by topic or by ‘page view’. assess is an indispensable online assessment tool, explicitly mapped to the Australian Curriculum that drives student progress through tailored instruction. As well as containing the student text and study tools, this obook offers virtual case studies including interactive maps, videos and other interactives.

Features:

• Content tailored to the needs of your classroom—each unit is enhanced by a range of engaging learning resources (such as stunning artwork, maps and differentiated tasks) designed to ensure full coverage of the syllabus within the allocated class time.
• Purpose-written content and learning resources cater to a wide range of student abilities learning styles.
• Provides a complete teaching and learning program at each year level from Years 7–10, across print (student text),digital (obook), and blended (text + obook) and (teacher kit + obook) formats.

Digital Components

The obook is Oxford’s next generation ebook. Each obook offers online and offline access to the complete range of content at each year level. All obook content is:

• presented in a web-style environment suitable for any screen size or device
• contains a range of purpose-built interactive resources, links to video, audioand supporting websites
• allows students to take notes, highlight, save and export their work
• provides access to the complete Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary (valued at $59.95) free of charge, in addition to a subject-specific Geography glossary.

About the Author

Mark Easton has taught Geography, History and English for over 20 years and during the last 15 years has been a contributing author to many geography, humanities and atlas titles. In 2010 he joined Oxford as a geography consultant to work on a range of titles and to support the use of these resources in the classroom. Mark is also the Head of the Humanities Department at St Margarets School.