Designing Your Course
Topic 5.2 Unit Overview
On this page, you will find an idea how to sequence the main ideas for this topic and how to interweave activities and practical work. 5.2 Impact of Feeding on Different Trophic Levels Data Activity -...
Activities
5.2 HL Technological Solutions to Food Production
In this activity, we will explore the strengths and weaknesses of some technological solutions to food production. Background Information Technological improvements can lead to very high levels of productivity,...
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5.2 Conserving Soil
There are many soil conservation and regenerative techniques that land managers and farmers can use today. Many of them actually arise from indigenous knowledge. Background Information A variety of techniques...
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5.2 (HL) Harvesting Wild Species
In this activity, you will explore the harvesting of two wild species and develop an ethical argument for the continuation or stopping of this harvest. Background Information Harvesting wild species...
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5.2 (HL) Food Supply and Health
In this activity, we will explore the causes and interconnnectedness of malnutrition with inequalities of global food supply and a trend away from preparing home cooked meals. Background Information...
Designing Your Course
Topic 2.1 Unit Overview
On this page, you will find an idea how to sequence the main ideas for this topic and how to interweave activities and practical work. 2.1 Naming species 2.1 Using and Building Dichotomous Keys 2.1 Biotic...
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2.2 Human Impacts on Flows of Energy and Matter
This activity allows for the practice of drawing system diagrams to illustrate how flows of energy and matter may change due to human impacts combined with a possible exam question. Background Information...
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5.2 Nomadic Pastoralism and Low Productivity Systems (HL)
In this activity, we will explore the role that low-intensity systems can have on the sustainable production of food. There is an extension task for HL students. Student Task (ALL) From the Guide, “Nomadic...
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5.2 The Green Revolution, Synthetic Fertilisers and the Alternatives
In this activity, we will explore the alternatives to using synthetic fertilisers that evolved to during the Green Revolution from the 1960s onwards. Student Task Synthetic fertilizers are needed in...
Designing Your Course
Topic 2.2 Unit Overview
On this page, you will find an idea how to sequence the main ideas for this topic and how to interweave activities and practical work. Data Analysis and Laws of Thermodynamics Photosynthesis and Respiration...