Geography
Student information
What will I learn in Geography?
Some of the things you will learn include:
• Where people live (the human habitat) and why they live there (population and settlement patterns)
• The natural world and what influences and shapes it
• The world of human activities and what influences and shapes it
• How to get and use information from different sources such as textbooks, maps, photographs, graphs,diagrams,newspapers,DVDs and theInternet.
Is learning Geography anything like what I did in primary school?
In primary school, you have studied Geography as part of SESE. You have also learned about many geographical ideas through studying the local, national and global environment.Junior Certificate Geography builds on these geographical ideas.
Some of the things you will learn include:
• Where people live (the human habitat) and why they live there (population and settlement patterns)
• The natural world and what influences and shapes it
• The world of human activities and what influences and shapes it
• How to get and use information from different sources such as textbooks, maps, photographs, graphs,diagrams,newspapers,DVDs and theInternet.
Is learning Geography anything like what I did in primary school?
In primary school, you have studied Geography as part of SESE. You have also learned about many geographical ideas through studying the local, national and global environment.Junior Certificate Geography builds on these geographical ideas.