THE GEOGRAPHER ONLINE

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  • Home
    • How to make a website: Tools and experiences
    • Maps and Regions
    • Travel Photographs and Videos
    • Live: Global Hazards and Disasters
    • Geography in the news
    • The Big Geography Challenge
  • New IB Geography 2017 onwards
    • IB Geography Introduction
    • Part 1: Geographical Themes >
      • Option B: Oceans and coastal margins >
        • 1. Ocean–atmosphere interactions
        • 2. Interactions between oceans and coastal places
        • 3. Managing coastal margins
        • 4. Ocean management futures
      • Option D: Geophysical Hazards >
        • 1. Geophysical systems
        • 2. Geophysical hazard risks
        • 3. Hazard risk and vulnerability
        • 4. Future resilience and adaptation
    • Part 2: Core Units (SL&HL) >
      • Unit 1: Changing Population >
        • 1. Population and economic development patterns
        • 2. Changing Populations and Places
        • 3. Challenges and opportunities
      • Unit 2: Global climate—vulnerability and resilience >
        • 1. Causes of global climate change
        • 2. Consequences of global climate change
        • 3. Responding to global climate change
      • Unit 3: Global resource consumption and security >
        • 1: Global trends in consumption
        • 2: Impacts of changing trends in resource consumption
        • 3: Resource stewardship
    • Part 3: HL Core Extensions >
      • Unit 4: Power, places and networks >
        • 1. Global interactions and global power
      • Unit 5: Human development and diversity
      • Unit 6: Global risks and resilience
    • Internal Assessment
    • Why should I study IB Geography?
  • IB Geography (Old Syllabus)
    • IB Core >
      • 1. Populations in Transition
      • 2. Disparities in Wealth and Development
      • 3. Patterns in Environmental Quality and Sustainability
      • 4. Patterns in Resource Consumption
    • Part 1: Geographical Themes >
      • Oceans and their Coastal Margins
      • Hazards and disasters - risk assessment and response
      • Freshwater - issues and conflicts
      • Urban Environments
    • Global Interactions - HL >
      • Measuring Global Interactions
      • Changing Space - The Shrinking world
      • Economic Interactions and Flows
      • Environmental Change
      • Sociocultural Exchanges
      • Political Outcomes
      • Global Interactions at the Local Level
    • IB Guidance >
      • Syllabus Guidance
      • IB Examination Guidance
    • Extended Essay
  • IGCSE Geography
    • Theme 1: Population and settlement >
      • Population Dynamics
      • Migration
      • Settlements
      • Urban Settlements
      • Urbanisation
    • Theme 2: The natural environment >
      • Plate Tectonics
      • Coasts
      • Rivers
      • Weather and Climate
      • Climate and Ecosystems
    • Theme 3: Economic development >
      • Development
      • Food Production
      • Industry
      • Energy
      • Tourism
      • Water
      • Environmental Risks of Economic development
    • GCSE Key Terms
    • GCSE Coursework
    • Alternative to Coursework
    • IGCSE Geography Examination Advice
    • IGCSE Revision Games
  • Key Stage 3
    • Year 6 >
      • My Place
      • Rivers
      • Brazil
    • Year 7 >
      • Maps and the world
      • Rocky Landscapes
      • Settlement
      • Weather & Climate
    • Year 8 >
      • Maps Introduction
      • Plate Tectonics
      • Economic Activity
      • Biomes
    • Year 9 >
      • Map Skills - review
      • Development
      • Coasts
      • Tourism
      • Paradise lost - Tourism in Thailand
  • AS Level Geography
    • World at Risk
    • Crowded Coasts
  • Geography Skills
  • Donations & Contact
  • YouTube Channel
  • Essential computer programs

Lesson 1&2: Development and Quality of Life

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  • To understand that there are different ways of classifying parts of the world according to their level of economic development and quality of life.
  • To understand different economic and social measures of development.
  • To understand the limitations of economic and social measures.

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Discuss and guess what the wold population currently is. What do we think it will be by the end of the lesson?

World Population Clock

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What is the meaning of the world development?
Using the top trumps game below begin to think about what makes a country developed
Development top trumps
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Development and Quality of life
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World Map Outline
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Causes of unequal development
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Tarsia on Indicators
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Consequences of unequal development
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​Using Gapminder, play a game guessing where in the world certain countries are on the Development Index

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GapMinder

Lesson 3&4: The Human Development Index (HDI)

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  • To know what a composite index is.
  • To understand why HDI is used to measure development
  • To explore the uses of HDI

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​Using the powerpoint try to guess whether the country is a HIC or LIC.
Discuss why you think this is the case.

HIC or LIC?
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Essay: How far do you agree that the HDI is the best way to measure the development of a country?
geoactive_measuring_development.pdf
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UN Human Development Index (HDI)
(HDI): Indicators & Shortcomings

Lesson 5-7: Why are some places poorer than others

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  • To understand the challenges facing countries in generating wealth
  • To know the factors that might be responsible for the lack of wealth in some countries


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​Watch the YouTube on why some countries are poor. 

Edpuzzle - Rich and poor countries

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Your task is to create a poster outlining all the issues that can contribute to certain areas in the world being poorer than others. The reasons should include:
  1. Weather and Climate
  2. Disease
  3. Terrain/Land
  4. Natural Hazards
  5. Corruption
  6. Natural resources
  7. Trade inequality
  8. Political factors
After you have made the poster you will be then creating a 2 minute video. You will need to choose one example area of the world and explain in detail why this specific location is poor. You will need to give real facts about the area you have chosen. The video will then be embedded on your Poster as a QR code.
BBC Bitesize: ​Why some countries are richer than others
Reasons For Poverty
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Why are some areas poor?
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​Posters will be presented to the rest of the class and  there will be peer voting for part of your assessment. This will be done using Microsoft forms (ranking).


Lesson 8: Trade and Chocolate

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  • To explore how international trade affects people in the world
  • To be able to explain how international trade can be negative
  • To know some of the negative impacts of the chocolate industry


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​Using the PowerPoint below begin to explore some of the issues

Trade and chocolate from Steven Heath
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Watch the panorama Video - The Bitter Truth about Chocolate and answer the accompanying questions.

Edpuzzle Video task
Video Notes - Chocolate
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Trade Keywords
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Lesson 9: What is Fair trade?

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Fair Trade
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Worksheet - Fair Trade
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Worksheet Answers
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Fair Trade Board game
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cards.pdf
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Lesson 10: Reducing the Development Gap

Print the information section of the following PowerPoint and explain the different methods of reducing the Development Gap

The Trade Game

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  • To appreciate how trade works
  • To understand how hard it is to break out of the poverty cycle


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This game will take one whole lesson. Start with explaining the rules and then follow the instructions on the PDF. 

trading_trainers.pdf
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  • Home
    • How to make a website: Tools and experiences
    • Maps and Regions
    • Travel Photographs and Videos
    • Live: Global Hazards and Disasters
    • Geography in the news
    • The Big Geography Challenge
  • New IB Geography 2017 onwards
    • IB Geography Introduction
    • Part 1: Geographical Themes >
      • Option B: Oceans and coastal margins >
        • 1. Ocean–atmosphere interactions
        • 2. Interactions between oceans and coastal places
        • 3. Managing coastal margins
        • 4. Ocean management futures
      • Option D: Geophysical Hazards >
        • 1. Geophysical systems
        • 2. Geophysical hazard risks
        • 3. Hazard risk and vulnerability
        • 4. Future resilience and adaptation
    • Part 2: Core Units (SL&HL) >
      • Unit 1: Changing Population >
        • 1. Population and economic development patterns
        • 2. Changing Populations and Places
        • 3. Challenges and opportunities
      • Unit 2: Global climate—vulnerability and resilience >
        • 1. Causes of global climate change
        • 2. Consequences of global climate change
        • 3. Responding to global climate change
      • Unit 3: Global resource consumption and security >
        • 1: Global trends in consumption
        • 2: Impacts of changing trends in resource consumption
        • 3: Resource stewardship
    • Part 3: HL Core Extensions >
      • Unit 4: Power, places and networks >
        • 1. Global interactions and global power
      • Unit 5: Human development and diversity
      • Unit 6: Global risks and resilience
    • Internal Assessment
    • Why should I study IB Geography?
  • IB Geography (Old Syllabus)
    • IB Core >
      • 1. Populations in Transition
      • 2. Disparities in Wealth and Development
      • 3. Patterns in Environmental Quality and Sustainability
      • 4. Patterns in Resource Consumption
    • Part 1: Geographical Themes >
      • Oceans and their Coastal Margins
      • Hazards and disasters - risk assessment and response
      • Freshwater - issues and conflicts
      • Urban Environments
    • Global Interactions - HL >
      • Measuring Global Interactions
      • Changing Space - The Shrinking world
      • Economic Interactions and Flows
      • Environmental Change
      • Sociocultural Exchanges
      • Political Outcomes
      • Global Interactions at the Local Level
    • IB Guidance >
      • Syllabus Guidance
      • IB Examination Guidance
    • Extended Essay
  • IGCSE Geography
    • Theme 1: Population and settlement >
      • Population Dynamics
      • Migration
      • Settlements
      • Urban Settlements
      • Urbanisation
    • Theme 2: The natural environment >
      • Plate Tectonics
      • Coasts
      • Rivers
      • Weather and Climate
      • Climate and Ecosystems
    • Theme 3: Economic development >
      • Development
      • Food Production
      • Industry
      • Energy
      • Tourism
      • Water
      • Environmental Risks of Economic development
    • GCSE Key Terms
    • GCSE Coursework
    • Alternative to Coursework
    • IGCSE Geography Examination Advice
    • IGCSE Revision Games
  • Key Stage 3
    • Year 6 >
      • My Place
      • Rivers
      • Brazil
    • Year 7 >
      • Maps and the world
      • Rocky Landscapes
      • Settlement
      • Weather & Climate
    • Year 8 >
      • Maps Introduction
      • Plate Tectonics
      • Economic Activity
      • Biomes
    • Year 9 >
      • Map Skills - review
      • Development
      • Coasts
      • Tourism
      • Paradise lost - Tourism in Thailand
  • AS Level Geography
    • World at Risk
    • Crowded Coasts
  • Geography Skills
  • Donations & Contact
  • YouTube Channel
  • Essential computer programs