Exploring the Concepts and Content in IGCSE and IBDP Geography
This is an interesting and radical deconstruction of how American suburbs are a short-sighted, inefficient, and community destroying piece of urban America. It is a thought provoking and critical video which really illustrates the flawed idea of suburban growth.
The link below contains a ‘live’ bar chart which goes through the most populous cities in the world, from 1500-2018. It is an excellent resource to spark discussions as to what makes cities successful, and what the future has for urban environments
https://observablehq.com/@johnburnmurdoch/bar-chart-race-the-most-populous-cities-in-the-world
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
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!
Below is the agenda I am using for my New York City infrastructure growth case study. It contains a bunch of resources I have looked up online from various websites. It corresponds to a syllabus point from the Urban Environments chapter from the IBDP Geography syllabus which reads:
Urban system growth including infrastructure improvements over time, such as transport, sanitation, water, waste disposal and telecommunications
Case study of infrastructure growth over time in one city
The picture used in the agenda and below is a mindmap of ideas created by my current grade 12 students about what they would expect to learn about NYC in this case study.
New York Infrastructure Case Study (Urban Environments)
Dear 11 HL,
What lies below is your work to be done in class on November 13th in my (planned) absence. Do not do it beforehand. Go through the videos and add the relevant notes to your case study which you have already started. Please pause the video as it goes along to make sure everyone gets the proper notes down. I fully expect this to be finished by the following class, so if you do not finish in class, please finish for homework.
The PDF of the lesson can be found here:
Haiti and Christchurch Case Studies
The link for the website can be found here:
https://www.britannica.com/event/Haiti-earthquake-of-2010
The first video is below. For whatever reason, the other two are too large to upload on this site, so I will send them to you separately (I will send all three via google drive just in case):
My good friend and fellow geographer Arnoud Kamp recommended this (in Dutch) mini-documentary to me. At only 45 minutes long, it goes into the diversity, personality, and future of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. If you know anything about Rotterdam and the transformation it is undergoing, you will know about the rapid gentrification that is taking over. This documentary analyses the practical consequences of the drivers of this change. One of the more apt and realistic presentations of the damages of gentrification and so called ‘urban renewal’.
https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/tegenlicht/kijk/afleveringen/2018-2019/mijn-stad-is-mijn-hart.html
THIS IS A MUST WATCH FOR DUTCH SPEAKERS INTERESTED IN GEOGRAPHY AND CITIES
