Wideworld
Wideworld gives students the opportunity to:
- Master key concepts and topics at GCSE beyond what
textbooks offer - Stretch and challenge through topical, relevant and
thought-provoking articles - Achieve the top grades and develop key skills through Wideworld’s extensive stimulus material
Each 24-page issue of Wideworld explores key topics in the current GCSE specifications through specially commissioned articles. Each article:
- features up-to-date case study material on core topics central to GCSE geography specifications
- encourages students to apply their understanding of GCSE geography so they can approach topics confidently
Regular columns develop students’ skills. These include:
- Global ecosystems – illustrating key characteristics
- Focus on… – a topical case study linked to the major world ecosystem
- Improve your grade – advice on exam technique and preparation
- Fieldwork focus – practical ideas and techniques for coursework
- Aerial view – analysing geographical features from the air
- WideWorldWeb – looking at the importance of the internet in learning about geography
Wideworld is published four times a year in September, November, February and April. Subscription rates for the new volume have been frozen, so for just £8.95 students will receive all four full colour issues, plus a copy of the Philip Allan Updates GCSE Geography Essential Word Dictionary (normally worth £6.99) free with the November issue.
Editorial board
- Jane Ferretti
- Brian Greasley
- Malcolm Renwick
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Volume 20
Issue 1: September 2008
Issue 2: November 2008
Issue 3: February 2009
Issue 4: April 2009
September 2008

Contents:
Fairly traded coffee: Santa Anita la Unión
Fieldwork focus
Questionnaires and interviews
Nick Gee
Wideworld expeditions
Kyrgyzstan
What caused the floods of 2007?
Wideworldweb
Population
Aerial view
The Grand Canyon
Heathrow: a terminal too far? Sample pages
Improve your grade
Understanding command words
The Itaipu Dam
Focus on…
Hot deserts
Global ecosystems
Hot deserts
November 2008

Contents:
Renewable energy in Spain
Kevin Borman
Improve your grade
Map work
Aerial view
Sydney
The 2008 China earthquake
Nick Gee
Plastic bags:
the beginning of the end?
Kevin Borman
Wideworldweb
Weather
Andrew Day
The Mabira Forest
Freya Grummitt
Fieldwork focus
Data collection: bi-polar indices and field sketches
Nick Gee
Focus on…
Temperate grasslands
Global ecosystems
Temperate grasslands