IB Geography

SKILLS
INDUCTION
1. Intro to Geog
  1. Most Typical Person?
2. Where's Geography in the library?
  1. Scavenger hunt
3. Geographical Technology
  1. Diigo
    1. bookmarks
  2. Google accounts
    1. GoogleDocs
    2. Google Reader
  3. RSS Feeds
    1. NEWS
    2. Policies
    3. Updates
  4. email group
4. IB Skills
  1. Using internet searches and sources
  2. Referencing
  3. Skim/scan reading
    1. active reading
  4. Active Listening
5. Syllabus
  1. what will we study?
  2. what are assessment objectives?
  3. command terms
CORE: Patterns and Change
1. 1. Populations in Transition
  1. 1.1 Population Change
    1. Resources
      1. How Many People can live on Planet Earth?
      2. DVD
      3. worksheet
      4. 7 Billion - youtube clip
      5. link to National Geographic
      6. Han Rosling lecture - population growth
    2. DTM
      1. Topic
      2. German case study?
      3. Comparison exercise of IB8?
      4. Models --> ToK link
    3. Population Pyraminds
      1. supplement with GeoActive article
      2. link back to DTM and IB8
      3. annotate different pyramids....create own living graph exercise
      4. COMPARISON
  2. 1.2 Responses to high and low fertility
    1. Dependency ratio - CALCULATE!
      1. how to use pop pyramids to find out?
      2. work out for IB8
      3. add as annotation to your pyramids
    2. Youthful vs. Ageing
      1. GeoActive articles
      2. YouTube clips
      3. SEEP
      4. Germany/UK?
      5. Government policies
      6. EVALUATE
      7. China
      8. France?
  3. 1.3 Movement responses - migration
    1. Types -->
      1. causes
    2. Impacts
      1. International
      2. Internal
  4. 1.4 Gender and change
    1. is there a gender gap? INFOGRAPHIC
2. 2. Disparities in Wealth and development
  1. 2.1 Measurement of regional and global disparities
    1. Developement gap
      1. Brandt line - still relevant today?
    2. Hans Rosling - population and development lecture (with Ikea boxes)
    3. def of key terms
    4. Evaluate indicies
      1. Measuring Disparities Evaluation Table.docx
  2. 2.2 Origin of disparities
  3. 2.3 Disparities and change
  4. 2.4 Reducing dispartities
3. 3. Patterns in Environmental Quality and Sustainability
  1. 3.1 Atmosphere and change
  2. 3.2 Soil and change
  3. 3.3 Water and change
  4. 3.4 Biodiversity and change
  5. 3.5 Sustainability and the environment
4. 4. Patterns in Resource Consumption
  1. 4.1 Patterns of resource consumption
  2. 4.2 Changing patterns of energy consumption
  3. 4.3 The changing importance of other energy sources
  4. 4.4 Conservation strategies
FIELD WORK
1. Subtopic 1
HL: Global Interactions
1. 1. Measuring Global Interactions
  1. 1.1 Global participation
  2. 1.2 Global core and periphery
2. 2. Changing space - The Shrinking World
  1. 2.1 Time–space convergence and the reduction in the friction of distance
  2. 2.2 Extension and density of networks
3. 3. Economic Interactions and Flows
  1. 3.1 Financial flows
  2. 3.2 Labour flows
  3. 3.3 Information flows
4. 4. Environmental Change
  1. 4.1 Degradation through raw material production
  2. 4.2 The effects of transnational manufacturing and services
  3. 4.3 Transboundary pollution
  4. 4.4 Homogenisation of landscapes
5. 5. Sociocultural Exchanges
  1. 5.1 Cultural diffusions: the process
  2. 5.2 Consumerism and culture
  3. 5.3 Sociocultural integration
6. 6. Political Outcomes
  1. 6.1 Loss of sovereignty
  2. 6.2 Responses
7. 7. Global Interactions at the Local Level
  1. 7.1 Defining glocalisation
  2. 7.2 Adoption of globalisation
  3. 7.3 Locale responses to globalisation
  4. 7.4 Alternatives
OPTION F: Food and Health
1. 1. Health
  1. 1.1 Variations in health
  2. 1.2 Measuring health
  3. 1.3 Prevention relative to treatment
2. 2. Food
  1. 2.1 Global availability of food
  2. 2.2 Areas of food sufficiency and food deficiency
  3. 2.3 Case Study - FAMINE
  4. 2.4 Productions and markets
  5. 2.5 Addressing imbalances
  6. 2.6 Sustainable agriculture
3. 3. Disease
  1. 3.1 Global patterns of disease
  2. 3.2 The spread of disease
  3. 3.3 Geographic factors and impacts
    1. 4 hours
OPTION B: Oceans and their Coastal Margins
1. 1. Introduction to Oceans
  1. 1.1 Distribution of oceans
  2. 1.2 Morphology of oceans
  3. 1.3 Oceanic water
2. 2. Oceans and Climate
  1. 2.1 Energy transfers
  2. 2.2 El Nino Southern Oscillation
  3. 2.3 Carbon Dioxide
3. 3. The Value of Oceans
  1. 3.1 Resource base
  2. 3.2 Fishing
  3. 3.3 Case Study
  4. 3.3 Waste
4. 4. Geopolitics of Oceans
  1. 4.1 Sovereignty rights
  2. 4.2 Conflict
5. 5. Coastal Margins
  1. 5.1 Physical characteristics
  2. 5.2 Management strategies
  3. 5.3 Case Study
6. 6. Coral Reefs and Mangroves
  1. 6.1 Development
  2. 6.2 Causes and consequences
OPTION D: Hazards and disasters—risk assessment and response
1. 1. Characteristics of Hazards
2. 2. Vulnerability
  1. 2.1 Vulnerable populations
  2. 2.2 Vulnerability
3. 3. Risk and Risk Assessment
  1. 3.1 Analysis of risk
  2. 3.2 Hazard event prediction
4. 4. Disasters
  1. 4.1 Definition
  2. 4.2 Measuring disasters
5. 5. Adjustments and Response to Hazards
  1. 5.1 Responses to the risk of hazardous events
  2. 5.2 Before the event
  3. 5.3 Short-term, mid-term and long-term responses after the event
OPTION C: Extreme Environments
1. 1. Challenging Environments
  1. 1.1 Global distribution of extreme environments
  2. 1.2 Population
2. 2. The Physical Characteristics of Extreme Environments
  1. 2.1 Glacial environment
  2. 2.2 Periglacial environment
  3. 2.3 Hot, arid environment
3. 3. Opportunities and Challenges for Management
  1. 3.1 Agriculture
  2. 3.2 Mineral extraction
  3. 3.3 Tourism
4. 4. Sustainability
  1. 4.1 Human Activity
  2. 4.2 Impact