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Geography
Content and Skills |
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Junior Certificate Geography was introduced 20 years ago. It
has recently been 'rebalanced' to help remove duplication
across the curriculum but this revised syllabus has not yet
been released. The focus of Junior
Certificate Geography is developing in students an inquiring
and critical thinking mind. Understanding processes and
patterns is central to the syllabus as is critical key
skills. |
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divided into 3 main sections |
| The Human Habitat - Processes
and Change |
Population, Settlement and
Urbanisation |
Patterns in Economic Activity |
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can access specific topics here -
Junior Cycle Geography - Content |
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| Graphicacy Skills |
| Reading and creating different Graph types |
| Reading and interpreting OS Maps |
| Reading and interpreting Photographs |
| Interpreting Weather Charts |
| Interpreting isoline, chloropleth, flow line maps |
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Investigation and Report writing skills |
| Designing and reading diagrams and flow charts |
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Reading, interpreting and simplifying statistics |
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Interpreting population structures and trends |
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| Problem Solving & Decision Making |
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Conflict over resource use eg. The Burren |
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Fossil Fuels vs Renewable Energy |
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Choosing locations for Hospitals, Schools,
Factories etc |
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Causes, Effects & Solutions to Pollution |
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Analysising the impact of Tourism |
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Causes, Effects and Solutions to
Deforestation, desertification, Global Warmin |
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Solutions to Urban Problems |
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Solutions to Economic Inequality |
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