Exploring the Concepts and Content in IGCSE and IBDP Geography
This video serves as a great crossover between units like urban environments and oceans/coastal margins in the IBDP syllabus. It’s something you should look out for when you do your post-Covid city trips! An interesting video that concerns many of the concepts of space, place, power, spatial interactions, and more. Credit to Half as Interesting Youtube channel for providing this video.
Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer – Half as Interesting
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
Below is a helpful and clear introductory video to the physical processes of El Nino in particular, but also a bit on La Nina. Thanks to MET Office for the clip!
The link below is to a nifty little game I have used in class to let students discover the consequences of biotic and abiotic resource extraction from the ocean. Nice to use as an activity to introduce content, use it as an activity to summarise what they have learned, or both!
Game from Crystalline Green Ltd: https://crystalline-green-ltd.itch.io/ocean-mining
GIS is no longer the ‘future’ of geography, it is the now. Browsing through Linkedin jobs, it is clear that any single job related to geography makes it a baseline requirement that the applicant have experience with GIS.
Click the link for an online, free training with the world-renowned GIS company, ESRI. It is a great introduction to the mechanics and usefulness of GIS. It is a course that is helpful for students and teachers alike, and at the end you get a certificate (PD hours!). You will need to make a (free) account.
Below is a decent little clip discussing China’s development of ‘fake’ islands to assert their dominance in the fishing grounds of the South China Sea.