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IB Geography Course Overview

The document summarizes the structure of the IB Geography course. It is divided into three parts: Part 1 focuses on optional topics like oceans and coastal margins, extreme environments, and geophysical hazards. Students study two options at Standard Level and three at Higher Level. Part 2 is the core consisting of global change topics like population distribution, global climate, and global resource consumption. Part 3 is fieldwork, where students complete an independent research project based on collecting and analyzing field data to evaluate a research question. The course assessments include papers, fieldwork, and options comprising different percentages depending on the level studied.

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IB Geography Course Overview

The document summarizes the structure of the IB Geography course. It is divided into three parts: Part 1 focuses on optional topics like oceans and coastal margins, extreme environments, and geophysical hazards. Students study two options at Standard Level and three at Higher Level. Part 2 is the core consisting of global change topics like population distribution, global climate, and global resource consumption. Part 3 is fieldwork, where students complete an independent research project based on collecting and analyzing field data to evaluate a research question. The course assessments include papers, fieldwork, and options comprising different percentages depending on the level studied.

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Welcome to IB Geography

Structure of the course


The Structure of the Course
Part 2 – The ‘core’ Part 3 –
Part 1 – The Fieldwork
‘options’ SL and HL core
(Internal
Geographic perspectives—global
change Assessment)
Two options are • Population distribution—changing
studied at SL, and population
SL and HL
three at HL • Global climate—vulnerability and
resilience
Fieldwork
• Oceans and Fieldwork, leading to
• Global resource consumption and
coastal margins security one written report
• Extreme HL only based on a fieldwork
environments Geographic perspectives—global question, information
• Geophysical interactions collection and
• Power, places and networks analysis with
hazards • Human development and diversity
evaluation
• Global risks and resilience
SL – 35% (paper 1) SL – 25%
SL – 40% (paper 2)
HL – 35% (paper 1) HL – 45% (25% pa. 2 + 20% pa. 3) HL – 20%
Why Does Geography “I know that we shall
meet problems along the
Matter? way, but I would rather
see for myself what’s
going on the world
3 minute challenge: Log onto an outside, than rely on
accredited news website (BBC newspapers, television,
News, Reuters, CNN, Sky News, Al
Jazeera etc.) and find a story that
politicians, and religious
includes an element of Geography leaders to tell me what I
of some level (this can be local or should be thinking”.
global). - Michael Palin
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Ext: Is there a news story that you
can find that doesn’t have a A good geographer should be able to question the
Geographical element to it? world around them, in order to make sense of it for
themselves …

Therefore, what questions, tangents, mysteries,


contradictions, and stories can you pertain from the
following images
3 key
concepts

Processes

Power

Possibilities
Task – Introduction
Globalisation The Venn diagram below
shows the three key themes
of this book.

First: Find examples of these


elements (and perhaps how
they overlap) in this chapter.
Annotate the book notes to
show where you can see
these processes.

Then: In a different colour


add some of the other topics
and examples that you have
studied so far in Geography.
Come back to this diagram
one you have finished the
book to add in more ideas.

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