G12   Revision   Session -   ib dp   geography
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I ran the last ever revision session for the old specification today for my SL & HL students. Here are the resources that I used.  The PowerPoint with basic resources can be found below. Some funny memes can be found out there to lighten the mood a little and so were added at key points in the sesson.  ​ powerpoint revision Our first activity was based around linking different elements of the SL syllabus together. Here in Toulouse, as well as the Core, we also study Sport Leisure and Tourism and Hazards as our two core options.  As the students are pretty snowed under with ..read more
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IB    &    IGCSE   Geography  fieldwork    visit   2018
Geography for 2017 & Beyond
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Details: Flights -Toulouse to Berlin Other transport - Metro Sunday PM - Urban Change & Evidence of Gentrification  IB DP & IGCSE (single opter) Geographers  Short orientation around the hotel and planning for the trip  Short lesson recap on spontaneous and organised settlement growth then U Bahn down to Nikolaikirche settlement rebuild to look at how Berlin might have looked and then show differences in Soviet v German architecture.  Then walk to Hackescher Markt to see elements of gentrification in process - repurposed railways arches etc.  Group then w ..read more
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Rana  Plaza  sweatshop  mystery  -   magpied   resources  &  systems   thinking! 
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I've just done quite a simple but effective piece of work with Grade 7 / Year 8 on the next section of their work on globalization (Geography of my stuff). Last week, they spent a little time researching the Primary brand and finding out about the growth of the company.  A quick search last night found a free GA card sorting exercise which I used as an activity for the first 20 mins of the lesson.  I produced my own flow category sheet to try to show the interrelationships between the categories as opposed to the traditional sorting into columns approach and had this copied in A3.&n ..read more
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January 10th, 2017
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Grade 6 (Primary) induction day event / french  school visit showcase  I have run this lesson twice recently and it has gone down really well both times. The first was for the Grade 6 induction to secondary Geog just before the last summer holidays and the second was for a visit of a local French school to our school for a showcase Geography lesson.  The game can be found on Richard Allaway's fantastic geographyalltheway.com website and I stole his chance cards as they worked really well as a way of exposing the EAL visiting students to English geographical terminology (with ou ..read more
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Starting  the  day  with  a   flash!!  - geography
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Just been reading Russel Tarr's blog post about a technique he picked up during the #pracped16 conference at school earlier this month.  http://www.classtools.net/blog/use-an-image-flash-to-engage-students-with-pictorial-sources/ I'm going to try this out with both of my IB classes this afternoon. G12 are just about to start their work on Malthus and his population theory and so I will be using the first image below. The G11's are just starting on the impacts of tourism on one nation and we'll be focusing on Vietnam. Their image is also below. The students are prearranged into groups an ..read more
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practical  pedagogies  2016  - reactive  geography
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Thanks for all for attending the session yesterday up in my teaching room. A the sole teacher of Geography at IST it was a bit of a strange situation to have to many highly esteemed colleagues in my room and the chance to chat a lot about the reactive natures of the subject, associated resources and constraints on us.  Interestingly, after Alan Parkinson's (@GeoBlogs) session earlier today, I now wonder how I might adapt the reactive takeaway menu to become more of a 'Blockbusters' type system where all students have to hit one key assessment task over the year?? I need to find out more ..read more
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Snakes  &  ladders  development / HDI  style.
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I've tried out a new idea this week with my Year 9 students who are in the process of studying the Global Development unit of work. Instead of simply playing an old and pre-prepared development Snakes & Ladders game with them, I decided (about 5 minutes before the lesson) to let them design their own to showcase their own interpretations and experiences of global development.  To put it into context, we have already studied a short unit deciding whether we should bin or teach the Brandt Line in 2016. This involved looking at key developmental data for a selection of countries to the ..read more
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Reflections   on  the   ice  man  -  joint   project
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Better late than never, but a few reflections on the joint history/geography project using Alan Parkinson's 'Ice Man' text.  All the work that I put together can be found by clicking here. It is likely that the content will change slightly before the next delivery in September 2015.  I work closely with the Russel Tarr, history teacher down here in Toulouse. He has been the driving force behind the majority of the cross-curricular stuff that goes on in the school and is always very keen to work on joint projects.  The focus of the enquiry is the Ice Man book written by Al ..read more
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How  the  ebola  virus  started  - hans  rosling  Video
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A short explanation from Hans Rosling about the reasons for the spread of Ebola in central Africa. Should be talked about extensively as part of all current IGCSE, IB & A level teaching of the subject.  ..read more
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Washing  line  geography  - #poundlandpedagogy
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Year 7 have just finished off their washing line geography - making connections between us - piece of work. This was a newly designed piece of work that I have used to launch secondary school geography for the new Year 7 students. The original idea was inspired by the Geography for a Pound session that I attended at a GA conference in Derby a couple of years ago in a session run by Tony Cassidy, Alan Parkinson & John Sayers. Amazingly today, just as I was putting the finishing touches to my display,  Briley Habib tweeted that her class had produced a cross section of a hurricane ..read more
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