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Preparing Students for the Synoptic Essay
Preparing Students for the Synoptic Essay This page sets up and introduction to Paper 3 and the synoptic essay. It provides some clear teaching ideas to get your students thinking synoptically. It works...
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Creating Bespoke Discussion Groups Free
This page documents my lesson today using Team Channels to create smaller bespoke discussion groups for a new topic on the Food and Health Option I'm starting a new lesson topic today on the Role of Organisations,...
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Using Teams alongside InThinking Free
Using Teams alongside InThinking In this lesson I show a mock-up of a recent (Teams) introduction to a lesson on vector-borne and water-borne disease. So in my school we use Microsoft Teams, which sets...
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Research Essays for our 'Lost Cohorts' Free
Research essays for our 'lost cohort' With our final year students no longer facing May examinations how can we occupy them and provide some academic focus? This page suggests a research focus on the...
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Distance Learning Lesson - Disease Outbreak Free
Distance Learning Lesson - Disease Outbreak Notes on how I am planning my next IB Geography lesson via distance learning Students should work in pairs and have been contracted by the World Health Organisation...
Activities
Changing Populations and Places
This is a link page to sub-pages that provided detailed lesson plans and learning activities that cover everything in the IB guide for this topic. Lesson plans include resources to use on an interactive...
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Preparing for the essays!
How to write the essays This page outlines the differences between the 12 and 16 mark essays in terms of the structure and approach including annotated model essays, grading and guidance 12 Mark Essay...
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Sample Paper 3 - HL Core
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...
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Sample Exams for Paper 1
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...
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Teacher Assessment Map
This page outlines a map of assessment through the unit, including skill based questions, short writing responses and extended writing responses including essays. It includes planning frames, essay guides,...