Exploring the Concepts and Content in IGCSE and IBDP Geography
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/
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!
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.
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
A great little clip from Vox on what geotagging, instagram, and social media is doing to some of our most cherished hidden natural gems here on earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itjc14Fm-gs
Use the link below to reach a very informative article from the World Economic Forum about the technology that is being used to save lives in the aftermath of a hazard event or disaster.
A special thanks and shout out to an old student (Sasha v.h.) who sent me this incredible link. With relevance to disparities, urban environments, migration, and so much more, these images captured by drones show the distinct spatial differences between ‘rich and poor’, ‘developed and developing’, or maybe even ‘us and them’. An example of such an image taken from the website can be found below.
To all of my students past (and present too, of course), please send me any cool stuff you encounter both online or in your university courses. Would love to hear from you and use what you find in my classes!
Click the link to check out the powerful images:
Photograph: Johnny Miller