Year+12+(HL)

=**Global Interactions**=

1. Watch the video on [|this] page and copy/learn the defition of 'cultural imperialism'. 2. Make notes on the different types of 'cultural imperialism'. Read the articles and relate each example to one type of cultural diffusion you've made notes on. 3. Complete your revision booklet for global interactions, up to the point you have studied already. Click here, and scroll down to bottom of page for the booklet.
 * Homework: Monday 7th Jan**

1. Homework (due next week): Complete an essay plan on this topic: 'For a named host country, examine the role of diasporas in preserving their culture within it and the adoption of minority traits by host society'. //[15 Marks]//
 * Lesson: Friday 7th December**

__Links for the worksheets:__

[|'Turks are a part of German culture']
[|Turks in Germany]

[|Prejudice still has a hold on German attitudes to Turkish culture]
[|Turks in Germany 2012]

[|Fifty Years After the Invite, Turks Are Still Outsiders in Germany]
[|Turks in Germany feel far from home] [|Turkish schools in Germany teach Turks own culture] [|Young Turks increasingly favour integration and religion]

[|Doner kebab become Germany's favourite fast food] [|The Halal trend is unstoppable] [|Turkish shops in Germany make a turnover...] [|Wedding Bells Are Ringing: Increasing Rates of Intermarriage in Germany] [|Istanbul visited most by German tourists] [|Germans declare Antalya most trusted tourism spot]

1. Your second case study for 'consumer culture' will be Ikea. It is in your textbook, I don't have the book with me at home, but you should be able to find it in the chapter of Socio-Cultural exchanges. Please read it carefully and complete all the questions related to it. This will be due on next Friday. [|Timeline link] [|Sales and number of stores]
 * Lesson: Friday 30th November - homework too - (Sorry, I've completely lost my voice now...)**

2. Tom: I need to please send me a digital copy of your EE asap. Thanks.

1. Complete Task 3 (McGeography worksheet below map) on[| this] page. When you play the game, remember to do the tutorial frist.This worksheet will take you about 1 hour.
 * Homework:**

1. Do the following essay plan 'Examine the international diffusion of three cultural traits'. //[10 marks].// Use your notes,[| this page] and you own ideas too!
 * Homework; due Friday 23rd Nov**

1.Finish essay plan (kay - please get off Laura or Tom) 2. Actively read pages 366 to 368 (up to ocnsumer culture):
 * Homework: due Friday 16th Nov**

1. Create a study sheet on the 'Deep Water Horizon' disaster. Use your notes from our previous lessons, and page 89 to help you. Make it user-friendly (i.e. dot points, a map of its location, some good figures etc.) 2. Begin your revision notes for the Global Interactions section, by starting to fill out the document below (we are up to the top of page 11).
 * Homework: due Monday 5th Nov (in SL lesson)**



1. Why wasn't anyone present for today's lesson? I came back especially for it, and am not happy that no-one showed up! I was not on the screen as away for that class, so there are no excuses (except Tom, I heard you were absent today). 2. So - you will need to do this lesson on you own! Heading: E-Waste; sub-heading: (lesson aim); watch ALL the videos (about 35 mins.) and read the posters and Guardian article carefully. Take notes on: a) background info, statistics and facts about the //relocation of e-waste//; b) reasons for its relocation; c) consequences of it. This should be 1.5 - 2 pages in length. 3. Complete the essay plan at the bottom of the page.
 * Homework: due Friday 19th Oct.**

See you on Monday! Don't forget that your Internal Assessment is due.

Want to try a different way to study? Check out these IB Geography study apps for iphones/androids, and guides for Kindle...

1. Watch the video and read all the articles about Food Miles on [|this] page - make sure you take notes on: a) what food miles are (see page 354/355 for a definition and background information) b) strengths and weaknesses of this measurement (i.e. what the critics say about food miles) c) concesquences of increasing volumes of freight (don't just list them, explain them with examples) 2. Comlpete the essay plan:
 * Homework: due Friday 5th Oct.**
 * "Food miles are a fallacy." Discuss the validity of this statement." //[15 marks]// ||

1. Re-read your notes on the Myanmar - Thailand migrant labour issue. Add to your notes on Thailand's attempts to control migrants by reading the first part of [|this] article. 2. 'International Outsourcing': Actively read (i.e. take notes while reading!) 'Technology and the offshoring and outsourcing of services' on pp.30-31 of your small Globalisation book and pg350-352 of your regular textbook. Don't forget to take notes!
 * Homework: due Friday 14th Sept**

1. Complete task 1 & 2 on [|this]page (there are quite a few videos for task 2 - you will need 30 minutes for these alone!). We will be discussing these on the first lesson back. 2. Please take 5 minutes to complete my [|Student Evaluation Survey] for 2011/2012!
 * Homework: due first lesson back**


 * Homework: due Tuesday 17th July**

1. Complete the worksheet below (20 questions) using the text and links on [|this] webpage, and pages 341 to 345 of your textbook. This should take you about 60 minutes. You must have completed 'financial flows 1' before completing this homework.

Also, please take 5 minutes to complete my [|Student Evaluation Survey] for 2011/2012!

__ECONOMIC INTERACTIONS AND FLOWS__

Examine the importance of loans, debt repayment, development aid, remittances, foreign direct investment and repatriation of profits in the transfer of capital between the developed core areas and the peripheries.

Complete the questions on the following worksheet by reading pages 338 to 343 of your textbook.
 * Homework: due Tuesday 10th July**

1. Complete the essay plan using the resources on [|this]page on the following essay topic: "ICT has many beneficial roles in our shrinking world." Discuss this statement //[15 Marks]// //2.// Revise for your test. You will also need to know the following definitions:
 * Homework: due 5th July**

[|West Africa's wait for high-speed internet over!]

Civil society Any organization or movement that works in the area between the household, the private sector and the state to negotiate matters of public concern. Civil societies include non‑governmental organizations (NGOs), community groups, trade unions, academic institutions and faith‑based organizations. Core and periphery The concept of a developed core surrounded by an undeveloped periphery. The concept can be applied at various scales. Globalization “The growing interdependence of countries worldwide through the increasing volume and variety of cross‑border transactions in goods and services and of international capital flows, and through the more rapid and widespread diffusion of technology” (source: IMF). The KOF index measures three main dimensions of globalization: economic, political and social, and nations are ranked accordingly. It is designed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology on a yearly basis. Time–space convergence The reduction in the time taken to travel between two places due to improvements in transportation or communication technology

1. Collect some facts and figures, for your IB focus countries, that illustrate the variations in the intensity of Internet use at a global scale. You will find the best link at the bottom of the [|this] page. 2. Actively read pages 28-32 from your small Globalization book. 3. Write an essay plan on the following topic: Explain **how** and **why** one network, such as the internet, has grown over time. //[10 marks]//
 * Homework: due Tuesday 19 June**

1. Read and take notes from pg.28 to 31 of 'Globalisation' by Simon Oakes (the little book) 2. Produce 1 page of notes on how the physical infrastructure of the internet has grown over time. Using videos and links from [|here].
 * Homework: due Tuesday 12 June**

1. Compete the the tasks under the headlines 'Change in speed and capacity of air transport - passenger and freight' and 'Change in speed and capacity of ocean transport - passenger and frieght'. [|Link]
 * Homework: due Tuesday 5th June**

Change in speed and capacity of air transport - passenger and freight
1. Complete all tasks (1-5) on [|this] page. You will need to print out a blank copy of the world map. See me BEFORE Tuesday if you want me to print you a copy.
 * Homework: due Tuesday 22nd May**

1. Complete all tasks on [|this] page.
 * Homework: due Tuesday 15th May**

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1. Go to [|this] link and complete task 3. This will involve listening to a 10 minute lecture; and watching two 10-15 minute clips. **Add notes to your note-taking frame** that you started in class, as you are listening/watching. **You may need an extra piece of paper!**
 * Homework: due Tuesday 24 April**

1. Actively read pages 5 to 21 of 'Globalisation'. You may need to read it more than once, it is pretty heavy.
 * Homework (for over Easter): due first lesson back**

=**Hazards & Disasters**=

1. Use the links below to complete your case study on the Deep Water Horizon oil spill. Focus on the causes and consequences of this human-induced disaster. Categorize the consequences into social, environmental, economic and political. Complete your case studies table.
 * Homework: due Tuesday 20th March**

[|Geographyalltheway slideshow] [|Profit, pollution and deception - 45min documentary] [|Collection of videos on YouTube]


 * Homework: due Tuesday 6th March**

1. Complete a list of 10-20 responses to the hazard you have chosen. Catagorise the responses in the same way as what we did for Haiti. 2. Complete the review exam style question at the bottom of [|this] page. It should take about 10-15 minutes, and be roughly 1/2 a page to a page in length. You may use your notes (from Haiti and/or your own disaster) to help you write this reponse.


 * 1) Go to [|this]page for the link to the website (also see below).
 * 2) Revise your case studies - facts, figures, causes, consequences (and ensure A3 page is complete!) for quiz on Tuesday

__Collaborative Note-Taking Approach - using Google Docs__
= = =Outline=
 * Revise: vulnerability | Aid | Insurance | zoning | 'spreading the risk'
 * Go to Google Documents to begin work on docs called:
 * Adjustments: Reducing vulnerability through AID (Laura in charge)
 * Adjustments: Reducing vulnerability through INSURANCE (Tom in charge)
 * Adjustments: Reducing vulnerability through LAND-USE PLANNING (Kay in charge)
 * Each person **MUST** contribute to all three documents. The peson in charge begins and edits the final version.
 * Notes should include definitions of the terms, //named and located examples// and measures of success.
 * A final rotation session should be given to proofing and structuring the notes.
 * Somebody revising from the notes should be able to 'Describe attempts that have been made to reduce vulnerability by spreading the risk (aid, insurance) and by land-use planning (zoning).' Try answering this question yourself

Environmental hazards exist at the interface between physical geography and human geography. Natural hazard events are often exacerbated by human actions, although conversely, human-induced hazard events are also affected by natural environmental conditions. The principles involved in studying natural hazards are identical to those involved in studying human-induced hazards.

The focus of this optional theme is on the full range of human adjustments and responses to hazards and disasters at a variety of scales. The term “natural disaster” is deliberately avoided in this theme because it is not considered to be an accurate reflection of the multitude of underlying reasons that expose people to risk and subsequently create the pre-conditions necessary for a disaster to occur.

In studying this theme, students are expected to examine the following four hazards:
 * Either **earthquakes** or volcanoes
 * Hurricanes (tropical cyclones, typhoons)
 * Droughts
 * Any one recent human-induced (technological) hazard resulting in an explosion or escape of hazardous material

At least one case study of a hazard event (or disaster) is required for each of the four hazard types.

Definitions
The definitions of the terms used in studying this theme, “Hazards and disasters—risk assessment and response”, vary from one source to another. To avoid confusion, the following definitions are given and expected of students.

Disaster

A major hazard event that causes widespread disruption to a community or region that the affected community is unable to deal with adequately without outside help.

Hazard

A threat (whether natural or human) that has the potential to cause loss of life, injury, property damage, socio-economic disruption or environmental degradation.

Hazard event

The occurrence (realization) of a hazard, the effects of which change demographic, economic and/or environmental conditions.

Risk

The probability of a hazard event causing harmful consequences (expected losses in terms of deaths, injuries, property damage, economy and environment).

Vulnerability

The susceptibility of a community to a hazard or to the impacts of a hazard event.

**Assessment Dates:**
Thursday 20th December - Test Tuesday 27th September - Test (on what has been covered so far)