Plate Movement

This page provides an in-depth look at plate movement and all its known causes. It's best to start without sharing the objectives because following the map activity, the gallery activity introduces the key ideas through images that students need to connect. Following this students work their way through a number of well chosen videos, animations, images and text based resources to complete a number of visually impressive worksheets, on Earth's structure, causes of plate movement, rifting and mantle plumes.

This page includes link pages to sample exam papers and mar schemes for the optional themes resourced for in this site. The sample papers are fully resourced to be used as end of unit tests or mock exams and the mark schemes are based on the generic schemes on the IB website.

This page includes 25 model essays from across the IBDP Geography course, including all the optional themes and SL&HL Core components. The resources are presented as either complete essays or as an essay exercise. Further essay resources such as essay frameworks and introduction and lead sentence frameworks can be found in the teacher assessment maps for the different sections of the course.

Student access is a unique feature of InThinking subject sites. It allows teacher to choose the level of students access to the site pages and features an internal grade book linked to assigned tasks and pages. This page explains how to set up Student Access for your students. It includes a step-by-step guide which allows you set it up in just a few minutes

The following page has 2 model papers that can be used as mock exams or for assessment. They feature authentic exam material and detailed mark schemes for use in class as follow-up or in teaching students on assessment. In addition there are sample feedback approaches provided.

This page only provides a few examples of Paper 1 exams within the site. If you would like sample papers for the other option themes you can find them under the headings of the options. At the moment there a 4 sample papers for Options A, C, D and F plus the IB sample papers. Option G, Urban Environment sample papers will be written over the summer.

Links to Pages with Lesson Plans for Global Risks and ResilienceThis page provides links to pages with lesson plans with learning activities that cover everything in the IB guide for this topic. Lesson plans include resources to use on an interactive whiteboard and worksheets to print. The pages have full student access to give maximum flexibility to the teacher and the student. There are theoretical...

Lesson Plans for Global Resource Consumption and SecuritySyllabus1. Global Trends in ConsumptionGlobal and regional/continental progress towards poverty reduction, including the growth of the “new global middle class”Measuring trends in resource consumption, including individual, national and global ecological footprintsSynthesis, evaluation and skills opportunitiesHow different patterns...

This page provides information on the syllabus for this section and links to lesson resources. Lesson plans include resources to use on an interactive whiteboard and worksheets to print. The pages have full student access to give maximum flexibility to the teacher and the student. There are theoretical notes for extended reading and teacher notes at the top that provide timing information, lesson objectives and activity instructions.

Lesson Plans for Impacts of Changing Trends in Resource Consumption Syllabus 2. Impacts of Changing Trends in Resource Consumption The water–food–energy “nexus” and how its complex interactions affect: national water security, including access to safe water national food security, including food availability national energy security, including energy pathways and geopolitical...