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16 free online resources for teaching Patterns and Change
Online resources
for teaching
IB DP Geography
A geographyalltheway.com Publication
About this ebook
Online resources
for teaching DP
Geography
16 free online resources for teaching Patterns and Change
Richard Allaway et al.
This ebook has been produced to support the ‘Free
online resources for IB Geography’ workshop being
delivered at the 2013 Geographical Association
Conference.
It will outline 16 free online resources that could be used
to support the teaching of the core ‘Patterns and Change’
unit of the IB DP Geography course.
Each resource will be introduced, hints and tips given and
a starter type activity suggested to engage the students
and encourage synthesis.
The aim is not to produce technical support as I believe
that each of the online resources are accessible. There is
a great, educational benefit from ‘playing’ with such
resources!
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All rights reserved. Subject to statutory exception no reproduction of any part may take
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Feedback and new suggestions are being collated here:
padlet.com/wall/16-online-resources and will be
integrated into further versions of this ebook.
Contributors
2013 Geographical Association Conference
Ellena Beckham, Alan Parkinson, Matt Podbury, Ewan Laurie,
Peter Price, Ken, Nicki and Tom.
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Derbyshire before moving to France to be the Head of Geography
at the International School of Toulouse, a post I occupied for 4
years before moving to Geneva.
I am a registered Chartered Geographer (Teacher) as awarded by
the Royal Geographical Society with IBG. This is a professional
accreditation for Geography teachers "which recognises
competence, experience and professionalism in the use of
geographical knowledge or skills in and out of the classroom, and
who are committed to maintaining their professional standards
through ongoing continuing professional development."
Richard Allaway
I am a teacher of IB DP Geography and the Secondary ICT
Coordinator at the International School of Geneva - Campus des
Nations. I am the author of geographyalltheway.com, the
continually developing online repository of my teaching resources.
The site was created in February 2006 and became a commercial
project in November 2010.
I chose to study at Sheffield University to follow a degree course
in Environmental Geoscience (BSc) and pursue my love for
adventurous activities in the Peak District. The climbing went so
well, I chose to stay in Sheffield and complete a Post Graduate
Certificate in Education. I have been teaching for over ten years. I
spent four and half years teaching Geography and undertaking
various pastoral roles at New Mills School and Sixth Form Centre,
When I am not teaching or working on geographyalltheway.com, I
love to spend time in the mountains - skiing, trekking and
climbing. I am an International Mountain Leader. The IML award
covers the skills and knowledge needed for leading groups on
any mountaineering activities where the techniques of alpinism
are not required.
I live in France, with my wife Anest and two young children, in the
foothills of the Jura mountains, just outside Geneva.
www.richardallaway.me
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Population change
1
Explain population trends and patterns
in births (Crude Birth Rate), natural
increase and mortality (Crude Death
Rate, infant and child mortality rates),
fertility and life expectancy in
contrasting regions of the world.
Analyse population pyramids. Explain
population momentum and its impact
on population projections.
“Gapminder is a non-profit venture – a modern “museum” on the
Internet – promoting sustainable global development and
achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development
Goals. The initial activity was to pursue the development of the
Trendalyzer software. Trendalyzer sought to unveil the beauty of
statistical time series by converting boring numbers into
enjoyable, animated and interactive graphics. In March 2007,
Google acquired Trendalyzer from the Gapminder Foundation and
the team of developers who formerly worked for Gapminder
joined Google in California in April 2007.”
Hints and Tips
Gapminder
World
• You can pre-produce graphs and link directly to them using
the ‘Share this graph’ button.
• Gapminder Desktop is a downloadable version that can be
run offline (without a link to the Internet).
• Gapminder World uses Flash and therefore will not work on
devices that do not run Flash - such as iPads and some
Android tablets.
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Suggested starter activity
Set the class a challenge (or two) to complete within a certain
timespan - or alternatively a playful homework activity to be
presented next lesson.
board where they think it will end up in 2013. A direct hit wins a
small prize.... or a pat on the back!
Challenge: Play with Gapminder World until you can produce a
graph of Crude Birth Rate (y-axis) and Income per person (x-axis)
- showing the trails of 5 countries of differing levels of
development since 1980.
Challenge: Is there a link between child mortality and the
number of cellphones in a country? Produce the best graph to
illustrate any possible relationship.
Guess the country: Run any simulation and get students to
guess the country/countries. Hide the key and students have to
work out which colour corresponds to which continent.
Linking with the Geography of Food and Health: Highlight a
few sub-saharan African countries and start from 1980 on the
default graph. This will show life expectancies dropping and then
recovering as HIV/AIDS takes hold and is then gradually brought
under control.
Gapminder Casino: Print out some casino chips, choose an
indicator and ask the students to stick their casino chips on the
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Responses to high and
low fertility
2
Explain dependency and ageing ratios.
Examine the impacts of youthful and
ageing populations.
Evaluate examples of a pro-natalist
policy and an anti-natalist policy.
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former
PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload,
view and share videos. The company is based in San Bruno,
California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology
to display a wide variety of user-generated video content,
including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as
amateur content such as video blogging, short original videos,
and educational videos.
In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for US$1.65
billion and now operates as a subsidiary of Google.
Hints and Tips
YouTube
• YouTube clips can easily be embedded into websites, wikis,
blog posts etc using the embed code that can be found under
the ‘Share’ button.
• It is possible to embed YouTube video clips easily into
PowerPoint 2010 presentations: Insert > click Video and select
Video from online video site option. You will need to use the
‘old’ embed code available from YouTube.
• Sometimes it is necessary to be able to download a YouTube
clip for future educational use! There are many online services
that will do this including: KEEPVID.
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Suggested starter activity
Add your own commentary: no comment TV is a YouTube
channel from euronews that has audio, but no commentary. Get
the students to add their own commentary. What question could
be asked to generate commentary on this video:
1 point, 3 points, 6 points: Show a clip and then discuss a 1
point question that could be asked about the content, a 3 point
question and finally a 6 point question. How about a 1 point, 3
point and 6 point question from this video:
Useful video clips for ‘Responses to
high and low fertility’
Y OU T UBE C LIP 2.1 Antinatalist: China:
Unnatural Selection
Y OU T UBE C LIP 2.3 Pronatalist: Germany's
children ad campaign
Y OU T UBE C LIP 2.2
China's one-child policy
creates massive gender
imbalance
Y OU T UBE C LIP 2.4 Pronatalist: Singapore
unveils S$2 billion
package to boost fertility
rate
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Movement responses migration
3
Discuss the causes of migrations,
both forced and voluntary.
Evaluate internal (national) and
international migrations in terms of
their geographic (socio-economic,
political and environmental) impacts at
their origins and destinations.
peoplemov.in shows the flow of migrants as of 2010 through the
use of open data. The data is presented as a ‘slopegraph’ that
shows the connections between countries. The chart is split into
two columns: the source countries on the left and the destination
countries on the right. The thickness of the lines connecting the
countries represents the amount of immigrated people.
peoplemov.in is an experimental project in data visualization by
Carlo Zapponi - a Data Visualization Designer at Nokia.
Hints and Tips
peoplemov.
in
• As the site uses HTML5 it works OK on the iPad (or other tablet
computing devices) but seems to cut off a bit of information on
the left extreme of the page.
• Reload peoplemov.in to refresh the page and reset the
diagram.
• The ‘Top migration corridors’ list provides an interesting
discussion and could be used when discussing either Lee’s
Model or Ravenstein's Laws.
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Suggested starter activity
Task: Start local by clicking on your current location on both the
left as a source country and on the right as a destination country.
Can you explain the major flows or the lack of them?
Challenge: find countries and flow that illustrate:
• The majority of migrants go only a short distance.
• The major causes of migration are economic.
• Migrants going long distances generally go by preference to
one of the great centres of commerce or industry.
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Gender and change
4
Examine gender inequalities in culture,
status, education, birth ratios, health,
employment, empowerment, life
expectancy, family size, migration,
legal rights and land tenure.
Y OU T UBE C LIP 4.1
Google Public Data
Explorer
The Google Public Data Explorer
makes large, public-interest
datasets easy to explore, visualize
and communicate. All of the
datasets in the Public Data
Explorer are provided by thirdparty data providers, such as
international organizations,
national statistical offices, nongovernmental organizations, and
research institutions.
Hints and tips
Google
Public Data
Explorer
• You can search across all of the public datasets hosted by Data
Explorer. There are two types of results: datasets and metrics.
A dataset is a set of statistics bundled together into a coherent
unit by a single data provider. Metrics are individual statistics,
that are components of larger datasets.
• Works fine on the iPad.
• When looking at ‘Gender and change’ try the Gender Gap
Report [dataset], Gender Inequality Index [metric] from the
Human Development Report and Gender pay gap [metric] from
the UN Economic Commission for Europe.
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Suggested starter activity
Challenge: Produce a combined graph that shows the overall
Gender Gap report index score for all the following countries:
• Australia
• Brazil
• China
• Mozambique
• United States of America
• Yemen
Task: Describe and explain the trends illustrated above.
Challenge: Find a country that has experienced a decline in their
Gender Gap Overall index.
Focus countries: Using the Google Public Data, search gender
and the first link is the Gender Inequality Index. Students can
choose a number of their 'focus countries' and begin to compare
the gender inequality of them. Good for a quick starter and
prompt for discussion.
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Measurements of regional
and global disparities
5
Define indices of infant mortality,
education, nutrition, income,
marginalization and Human
Development Index (HDI).
Explain the value of the indices in
measuring disparities across the
globe.
UNDP DIY HDI: Build Your Own Index enables you to construct
your own development index. You start by selecting the
dimensions you wish to include in the index. If you click on the
dimension name it opens up the dimension panel, which provides
a new set of options. Each dimension can consist of one or more
indicators. In the expanded dimension panel, it is possible to
change the importance or 'weight' of both the dimension itself
and the indicators within the dimension. For more information
about each indicator, click on the 'i' button which is next to the
indicator name. You can also see the number of countries for
which data is available for each indicator.
Hints and tips
UNDP DIY HDI:
Build Your
Own Index
• This online tool is Flash based and therefore will not work on
the iPad or some other tablet computing devices.
• ‘Finished’ indexes can be exported as pdf files.
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Suggested starter activity
Challenge: Construct a Human Development Index that has
Australia ranked number 1.
Challenge: Construct a Human Development Index that has your
home country ranked number 1.
Challenge: Construct a Human Development Index that has no
economic data included within it.
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Origin of disparities
6
Explain disparities and inequities that
occur within countries resulting from
ethnicity, residence, parental
education, income, employment
(formal and informal) and land
ownership.
Lives on the Line shows two key statistics:
1. The life expectancy at birth of those living around each
London Underground, London Overground and Docklands
Light Railway station.
2. The rank of each London ward on the spectrum of Income
Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI).
Life expectancy data exists for each ward in London. To transfer
the ward-level values to each station, a circle with a 200m radius
was first drawn around them. If this circle overlaps no other wards
then that single rounded value is used for the station. If it overlaps
multiple wards then an average was used.
Hints and tips
Lives on
the Line
• Works fine on the iPad.
• Some other data visualization to view as part of a disparities
and inequalities exercise:
‣ London Surnames
‣ Twitter Tongues - the languages of tweets in London in
summer 2012
‣ Office for National Statistics - Households in poverty
estimates
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Suggested starter activity
Challenge: Find where people live the longest.
Challenge: Find where people live the shortest.
Challenge: Find where there is the greatest change in life
expectancy in the shortest distance.
Challenge: Why does crossing the Thames between Pimlico and
Vauxhall sees life expectancy drop by 6 years?
Linking to London 2012: As an introduction to work on the
London Olympic boroughs set the following enquiry:
1. One of the key aims of London's 2012 bid was
'convergence' between East & West London, i.e. all quality
of life indicators to be equalised;
2. Why was this an aim? What is the problem? Tentative
causes?
Google Street View: Students locate the highest - lowest values
and use Google Street view to visit and walk around the
neighbourhood of the related stations. What are their initial
impressions? Why?
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Disparities and change
7
Identify and explain the changing
patterns and trends of regional and
global disparities of life expectancy,
education and income.
Examine the progress made in
meeting the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) in poverty reduction,
education and health.
MDG Maps is a geovisualization tool of the Millennium
Development Goals developed by Joshua Masiko.
It enables you to generate printable maps for the different
indicators. Select an indicator and the data will be loaded and
rendered. Use the slider at the bottom of the map to select data
for different years. You can customize the map by selecting
different color schemes and background colors. To export the
map to pdf click the button at the top of the map.
Hints and tips
• Another pesky Flash based geovisualization tool so no good
with the iPad.
• Clicking on a country will zoom in to the selected country and
display printable charts.
• There are some gaps in the data coverage.
MDG Maps
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Suggested starter activity
Challenge: For each Millennium Development Goal find a data
set that has complete global coverage. Why is there ‘missing
data’ from some of the sets?
Task: Describe the progress made by Niger in terms of:
• Employment to population ratio for males over the age of 15.
• Persistence to last grade of primary education for female
students.
• The percentage of children aged 12-23 months immunized
against measles.
Game: Give students an indicator (eg % of population living in
poverty - under $2 per day) and a board pen. Students follow the
'home or away' Question of Sport points scoring theme
depending on how confident they are with their indicator. They
must identify a top and bottom rated country correctly by placing
an X on the country on the IWB (& naming it). 10 indicators tested
in quick succession.
Quick Quiz: Has X met this MDG?
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Reducing disparities
8
Discuss the different ways in which
disparities can be reduced with an
emphasis on trade and market
access, debt relief, aid and
remittances.
Evaluate the effectiveness of strategies
designed to reduce disparities.
Remittance flows is a visualization that shows the global
movements of money due to remittances (money sent by
migrants to their home country) developed by Roxana Torre. The
values presented are only an estimation of the total amount of
money being sent, as it's not possible to keep track on all money
sent in informal ways. The data used comes from "Bilateral
remittance estimates using migrant stocks, destination country
incomes, and source country incomes" (World Bank).
Click on a country to see the remittance flows. Two different
views are possible: Remittances sent and received, indicating if
the selected country will be the one sending or receiving. The
width of the country circle arc is proportional to the amount sent
or received. Hovering over the lines will show the estimated
remittance value between the countries. The countries are
grouped by continent and within the continent in subregions.
Remittance
flows
Hints and tips
• Even though not Flash based, this visualization doesn’t seem to
work on the iPad.
• Swap between ‘Remittances sent’ and ‘Remittances received’
by clicking on the words above the visualization.
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Suggested starter activity
Focus countries: It is good for students to be able to quote
pieces of relevant data for a handful of countries to illustrate their
understanding. Who are the largest remittance senders and
receivers from your focus countries? For example:
• Australia: 2063 million US$ to China, 1191 million US$ from
UK.
• United States of America: 22190 million US$ to Mexico, 655
million US$ from Mexico.
• Brazil: 330 million US$ to Portugal, 1137 million US$ from the
USA.
• China: According to the visualization sent 0 US$, 12205 million
US$ from the USA.
• Niger: 126 million US$ to Nigeria, 14 million US$ from Côte
d’Ivoire.
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Atmosphere and
change
9
Describe the functioning of the
atmospheric system in terms of the
energy balance between solar and
longwave radiation.
Explain the changes in this balance
due to external forcings (changes in
solar radiation, changes in the albedo
of the atmosphere and changes in the
longwave radiation returned to space).
Discuss the causes and environmental
consequences of global climate
change.
The Guardian is a British national daily newspaper. The
newspaper's online offering is the second most popular British
newspaper website after the Daily Mail's Mail Online. In April
2011, MediaWeek reported that it was the fifth most popular
newspaper site in the world. The Guardian and its Sunday sibling,
The Observer, publish all their news online, with free access both
to current news and to an archive of three million stories. A third
of the site's hits are for items over a month old.
The Guardian organizes their content into categories. For
example in the Environment section you can view the Climate
change, Carbon emissions, Energy and Travel categories
amongst others.
The
Guardian
The Climate change section is useful for reviewing contemporary
material when studying the ‘Discuss the causes and
environmental consequences of global climate change’ part of
the IB DP syllabus.
Hints and tips
• Each of the categories has it’s own RSS feed so you can
subscribe to the stories in a news reader such as Feedly.
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Suggested starter activity
Question: What stance does the Guardian take on Global
Climate Change? What evidence do you have for your opinion.
Challenge: Find two articles related to the causes of global
climate change.
Challenge: Find two articles related to the environmental
consequences of global climate change.
Rota: Have a rota of students, each student should present a 2
minute summary of a very recent article as a starter activity. One
summary per lesson so a student could expect to present every
couple of weeks depending on class size.
Challenge: Students have to find a location that has been
affected by climate change. Most interesting article wins.
Possibility of varying the scales: local, national, regional and
international.
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Soil and change
10
Explain the causes of soil degradation.
Discuss the environmental and socioeconomic consequences of this
process, together with management
strategies.
WikiMindMap is a tool used to easily and efficiently browse
Wikipedia content, inspired by the mindmap technique. Wiki
pages in large public wikis, such as Wikipedia, have become rich
and complex documents and as such, it is not always straight
forward to find the information you are really looking for. This tool
aims to support students to get a well structured and easily
understandable overview of the topic they are looking for. All
content of the mindmap is derived from the wiki which was
selected from the initial drop down box.
Wikipedia is frowned upon by some academic institutions.
However, Wikipedia does have it uses - especially when it comes
to looking at the sources of the information used to produce the
wiki content.
Hints and tips
wikimindmap
• en.wikipedia.org is Wikipedia in English.
• Clicking on the + symbol expands the mind map.
• Clicking on the green circular arrows symbol makes that term
the centre of a mind map.
• Clicking on the blue square with pointing arrow symbol takes
you directly to the source of that Wikipedia content.
• Wikiweb [$2.99] is an iPad app that does a similar thing in a
rather slick way.
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Suggested starter activity
G ALLERY 10.1 Essay planner
15 minute challenge: Using just content linked to from Essay Title
WikiMindMap find 9 facts, statistics or explanations that could be
Do you understand the
used to fill in the central column of the essay planner for the question and how are you
going to approach it?
following extended response question: Discuss the environmental
Introduction
and socio-economic consequences of soil degradation [15 Specific opening
statement
marks].
First statements in each body
paragraph are descriptive.
Body Paragraph #1: Idea
You need three of: Facts, statistics,
explanations, and/or analysis. This is
NOT descriptive.
1.1
Cleverly state that you have thus,
proven your point for this idea/
paragraph.
How have y
qu
Closing statement #1
Conclusio
Summariz
main them
directly to
1.2
1.
1.3
2.
Show understanding of
what the question
requires
Body Paragraph #2: Idea
2.1
Closing statement #2
3.
2.2
2.3
Conclude
question s
personal o
evaluation
Outline
1.
Body Paragraph #3: Idea
3.1
Closing statement #3
2.
3.2
3.
3.3
Idea sourc
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Water and change
11
Identify the ways in which water is
utilized at the regional scale.
Examine the environmental and
human factors affecting patterns and
trends in physical water scarcity and
economic water scarcity.
Examine the factors affecting access
to safe drinking water.
TED is a nonprofit devoted to ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’. It started
out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three
worlds: Technology, Entertainment and Design. TED Talks began
as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the
world. Under the moniker "ideas worth spreading", talks were
released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the
millions. As of November 2012, TED Talks have been viewed
more than one billion times.
Hints and tips
TED
• Somebody has produced an online spreadsheet with links to all
the talks, names of the talks and speakers plus a short
summary. Use Ctrl+F to open a search box on the
spreadsheet.
• The videos of the talks can be viewed on the TED website but I
find that viewing them on YouTube is usually better.
• TED Ed is a recent TED project with a commitment to creating
lessons worth sharing. They follow a watch > think > dig
deeper pattern. Although there are not many videos related to
the ‘Water and change’ section of the IB DP Geography
syllabus, the following are worth a look:
‣ Where we get our fresh water - Christiana Z. Peppard
‣ Navigating Our Global Future - Ian Goldin
‣ Don't misrepresent Africa - Leslie Dodson
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Suggested starter activity
Questions you would like to ask: While watching the TED talk
write 3 follow-on questions that you would like to ask the
speaker.
Y OU T UBE C LIP 11.1
Fahad Al-Attiya: A
country with no water
Y OU T UBE C LIP 11.3
Michael Pritchard: How
to make filthy water
drinkable
Joined up thinking: Watch a TED talk and afterwards list as
many parts of the IB DP Geography syllabus as possible that the
talk links to.
Y OU T UBE C LIP 11.2
Rob Harmon: How the
market can keep
streams flowing
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Biodiversity and change
12
Explain the concept and importance of
biodiversity in tropical rainforests.
Examine the causes and
consequences of reduced biodiversity
in this biome.
The GRID-Arendal Maps & Graphics Library is an on-going
project to collect and catalogue all graphic products that have
been prepared for UNEP publications and websites from the last
15 years. There are currently 2698 graphics available in the
database. The mission of GRID-Arendal, which was established
to support the UN in the field of environment, mainly through its
Environment Programme (UNEP), is to create environmental
knowledge, enabling positive change. This is achieved by
organizing and transforming available environmental data into
credible, science-based information products delivered through
innovative communication tools.
The GRID-Arendal Maps & Graphics Library provides an excellent
source of ‘stimulus materials’, the kind of which might be used for
the short answer questions in Paper 1 or Paper 2.
GRID-Arendal
Maps &
Graphics Library
Hints and tips
• A lot of the images are organised into Collections such as the
Vital Forest Graphics collection.
• Most of the graphics can be downloaded as high and low
quality .jpg image files or .pdf files.
• Use of graphics: Using the graphics and referring to them is
encouraged! Use them in presentations, web pages,
newspapers, blogs and reports. For any form of publication,
include the link to the graphic’s webpage and give the
cartographer/designer credit.
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Suggested starter activity
When Forest Conversion is Profitable
[http://www.grida.no/graphicslib/detail/when-forest-conversion-is-profitable_abf8]
Question: How many US dollars can be earned per hectare in
Brazil from growing Soybeans? [1 mark].
Getting into the mind of the examiner: What questions could
be based on the graphic using AO1 command terms: define,
describe, determine, estimate, identify, outline or state?
What is Becoming of the Amazon Forest?
[http://www.grida.no/graphicslib/detail/what-is-becoming-of-the-amazon-forest_777a]
Question: Describe the distribution of deforested areas in the
Amazon. [3 marks] Then use the student’s work to produce a
‘perfect’ answer or an examiner’s mark scheme.
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Sustainability and the
environment
13
Define the concept of environmental
sustainability.
Evaluate a management strategy at a
local or national scale designed to
achieve environmental sustainability.
ElectroCity is a simulation game produced by Genesis Energy
and has been online since 2007. Genesis Energy is a leading
generator and retailer of energy in New Zealand. It generates
electricity from a range of sources including gas, coal, wind and
water.
The company developed the web-based game called ElectroCity
which sees players name their very own town and work towards
a balance of sustainable energy, city growth and profit. Players
have 150 turns to create a city, generate revenue, build power
generation and manage the resulting environmental impact while
keeping their citizens happy.
Hints and tips
ElectroCity
• The ElectroCity is Flash based and therefore will not work on
the iPad.
• You can download the game and run it offline on a Mac or PC.
• There is a lesson based upon ElectroCity, aimed at younger
students, on geographyalltheway.com.
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Suggested starter activity
Flipping the lesson: Ask your students to play ElectroCity for
homework and ask them to take a screenshot of their final score.
The starter activity could be the students discussing their top tips
for success.
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Patterns of resource
consumption
14
Evaluate the ecological footprint as a
measure of the relationship between
population size and resource
consumption.
Identify international variations in its
size.
Discuss the two opposing views (neoMalthusian and anti-Malthusian) of the
relationship between population size
and resource consumption.
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, using equal area
cartograms where territories are re-sized according to a particular
variable. The maps are best understood as pie charts where the
segment of the pie is reshaped to look like a country. Then the
area of that country is adjusted according to the proportion of the
world total of a variable that is found there. Just as a pie chart
would.
A consistent colour scheme is used throughout all the maps. The
folks at Worldmapper divided the world into 12 separate regions.
The regions were chosen to be geographically contiguous groups
of territories which divided the world into roughly symmetrically
balanced population groups, with no region containing fewer than
one hundred million people.
Hints and tips
Worldmapper
• The Worldmapper website includes nearly 700 maps - lots of
which could be linked to the IB DP Geography syllabus content
- have a good look round.
• The data behind each map can be downloaded, as can PDF
poster versions and high resolution images.
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Suggested starter activity
Describe training: Send one student out of the room. Choose a
Worldmapper map and project it on the board. Students in the
classroom have 4 minutes to write a description of the patterns
shown. Project four Worldmapper maps on the board, including
the one for which the descriptions have been written. Invite the
student back into the room and choose another student to read
their description. If the student who has been out of the room can
correctly identify the map being described then huge applause!
Send another student out and repeat for the four Worldmapper
maps.
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Changing patterns of
energy consumption
15
Examine the global patterns and
trends in the production and
consumption of oil.
Examine the geopolitical and
environmental impacts of these
changes in patterns and trends.
Examine the changing importance of
other energy sources.
ChartsBin is a web-based data visualization tool that will allow
everyone to quickly and easily create rich interactive visualizations
with their own data.
ChartsBin is useful as a free resource as it hosts many different
maps that can be useful for teaching IB DP Geography including
ones relevant to ‘Changing patterns of energy consumption’. The
‘Featured’ and ‘Latest updates’ sections are created and
maintained by the ChartsBin statistics collector team.
Hints and tips
ChartsBin
• You can change the map projection used by clicking on the list
of possible projects below the map.
• A key is available by clicking on the button below the map.
• Useful maps:
• Current Worldwide Oil Production
• Current Worldwide Reserves-to-production ratio of Oil
• Current Worldwide Oil Consumption
• Ecological Footprint of Consumption Compared to
Biocapacity
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Suggested starter activity
Y OU T UBE C LIP 15.1 How to Create an Interactive
Thematic Map in ChartsBin.com?
15 minute challenge: Using the video on the right and a
ChartsBin account (all you need is a working email address)
create a visualization of total electricity production from hydro.
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Conservation strategies
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Discuss the reduction of resource
consumption by conservation, waste
reduction, recycling and substitution.
Evaluate a strategy at a local or
national scale aimed at reducing the
consumption of one resource.
Compflight is an image search engine tailored to efficiently locate
images. It searches the image hosting site Flickr. In August 2011
Flickr reported that it was hosting more than 6 billion images!
Compfight
Entering a search term returns a page of thumbnail images. The
left hand column includes various settings:
• Tags only / All text: Difference between searching just an
image’s tags (keywords) or all the text associated with an
image.
• Any license / Creative commons / Commercial: The license the
images have.
• Show originals / Hide originals / Only originals: Blue bars
indicate Flickr is holding an original. Linger your cursor over the
image to display dimensions. ‘Hide originals’ will hide the blue
bars associated with original images. ‘Only originals’ will locate
only images that have originals.
• Safe / Unsafe: ‘Safe search’ will hide 99% of inappropriate
content.
Hints and tips
• Clicking on an image will show a popup that will show a larger
version of the image, the image’s license agreement and choice
of sizes to download. Clicking on the large image will take you
to it’s Flickr page.
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Suggested starter activity
Photo editor task: Imagine you are the photo/image editor for a
new Geography textbook. Find 6 images to present to the editorin-chief for the section on ‘the reduction of resource consumption
by conservation, waste reduction, recycling and substitution’.
This can lead to a class discussion on the best image(s).
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