Exploring the Concepts and Content in IGCSE and IBDP Geography
While browsing around trying to find reliable and interesting websites pertaining to the Coronavirus that is currently all anyone can talk about, I came across this nifty website. I do not know if it will be updated as time goes along, but it could be an interesting discussions-starter in Food and Health, and Global Interactions units.
https://towardsdatascience.com/coronavirus-data-visualizations-using-plotly-cfbdb8fcfc3d
The link below is to an excellent resource with regards to many items in the IBDP Geography syllabus. It shows the progression of the most visited countries in the world from 1995 to 2018, using World Bank Data. It has many links to tourism, migration, globalisation, population growth, and more. Thanks user ‘Datalover’ for posting!
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 article on medium.com and written by Fábio Esteves does a good job of summarising the importance of privacy in the modern age. I am using this to form a discussion with my HL students in the hacking, identity theft and surveillance section of the Global Interactions part of the syllabus. Click the link below to check it out.
Last year, my grade 12s really enjoyed this activity for their revision and it ended up being quite straight forward to run. If you don’t have one, make an account at www.padlet.com. As a teacher, on a Smartboard, projector, Prowise; whatever you use, you can copy and paste one of the questions into a padlet. Share the link to your padlet with your students, who can then via any device access it and respond to the question. I did it in groups, so in teams of 3 students could come up with their answer. Then, as a class, when all groups had answered, we looked at the responses on the big screen to analyse who did the best and compare/contrast responses.
Padlet: www.padlet.com
Hazards and Disasters Revision Questions: Hazards and Disasters Questions
Urban Environments Revision Questions: Urban Environments Questions
Global Interactions Revision Questions: Global Interactions Questions
Mind you, these questions were based on the old syllabus, but there are still many relevant and useful questions that have ties to the new syllabus. Also, some questions are quite specific to what I taught in class, so be aware that they will be of no used to you.
