Exploring the Concepts and Content in IGCSE and IBDP Geography
This mini-expose uncovers the nature of gentrification in San Francisco and the effects on different neighbourhoods and communities running along market street. This clip is useful in how it shows the faces and names behind the causes and consequences of a controversial urban process.
https://hoodline.com/2016/04/vice-takes-a-video-tour-of-san-francisco-gentrification
This slightly long(er) clip focusses on some of the realities about African migration. Good for lessons on migration, urbanisation, displacement, and more. Misconceptions are illuminated and some interesting examples of cause and consequence are brought to light as well.
The link below offers viewers a fantastic visual platform for viewing wind, ocean currents, particulates and more. The virtual globe can help students to understand, describe, explain, analyse…the command terms are endless! Click on ‘earth’ in the bottom left corner to manipulate the settings and change to ocean currents, particulates, etc. Move the map around to view the patterns all around the world!
(Photo below a screenshot of the website)
Geography Monkey (www.geographymonkey.com) is an excellent resource I have consulted a few times in the past (Credit to Tom Sheard, website creator).
I used some of the resources he collated on ENSO/La Nina/El Nino which clearly illustrate how these processes occur. Here is a link to it: http://geographymonkey.com/2-oceans-and-climate.html?m
What lies below is a system I am using to give feedback on Paper 1, 2, and 3 essays. I have found over time that I am constantly writing the same feedback over and over again across different students. I think that this approach has cut down grading and feedback time on my end, while giving them the same (and in some cases more) feedback than previously. Not only that, it engages students to actually make connections and take a bit more control of their feedback. I still write personalised feedback, but I do find this system is working and appreciated so far!
Dr. Jordan B Peterson is (in)famous for his bold and sometimes controversial views on a variety of subjects. Grade 11s, your homework is to watch the from 05:00 to 21:30 minutes of the video below on gender equality. Your assignment is, in your notebooks as a continuation of the gender equality topic, to write down (at least) three statements you agree with and (at least) three you disagree with/find a bit too strongly worded. You can pause the video so these statements need to be written down word for word. Your notebooks will be checked and we will follow this up with a reflective discussion the first class of next week.
Click the link to the revision guide I have created for my current grade 12s for both the mock and final exams in 2019. I will revise it in April to add content we have learned from now until then. I hope you use it (wisely), grade 12s!
Geography Grade 12 Revision Guide
In this fantastic documentary, PBS deconstructs the values, approaches, and realities of the modern world of social media. This mini-doc reveals the current consumer culture is completely based off of the way we interact with each other online. It is only loosely based with topics in the HL extension (Surveillance, for example), but it is an eye-opening documentary that anyone who participates in social media should watch. Click the link below to watch it on www.pbs.org.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/generation-like/
This is for the HL class, (Urban Environments is on the post below). Here are the political, economic, and environmental points discussed as promised.
Here are the Rotterdam case study points as promised. I have also included two additional links below for your revision purposes.
