Core: Global change [Paper 2]
Unit Contents
- Unit 1: Changing population
- Unit 2: Global climate - vulnerability and resilience
- Unit 3: Global resource consumption and security
Detailed examples and case studies
Detailed example
Places explored
Eastern Africa
Middle Africa
Western Africa
South America
Northern America
Eastern Asia
- 1.1.3 Population distribution and economic development at the national scale
- 1.2.1 Population change and demographic transition over time
- 1.2.2 Megacity growth
- 1.2.3 Migration - knowledge and understanding
- 1.3.2 Ageing societies - Japan
- 2.2.4 Impacts of climate change on people and places
- 3.2.1 Nexus Thinking
- 3.2.3 Recycling and waste
South-eastern Asia
Southern Asia
Western Asia
Eastern Europe
Northern Europe
Western Europe
Australia and New Zealand
Melanesia
Global
- 1.1.1 Global population distribution
- 1.3.1 Population trends
- 2.3.2 Global geopolitical efforts
- 3.1.1 Poverty reduction
- 3.1.2 The growth of the “new global middle class”
- 3.1.3 Ecological footprints
- 3.1.4 Water, land and food
- 3.1.5 Energy
- 3.3.1 Divergent thinking
- 3.3.2 The circular economy
- 3.3.3 Resource stewardship and the UN SDGs
Approaches
Artificial intelligence
Kahoot
Note taking frame
Podcast
- 1.1.2 Global patterns of economic development
- 1.2.1 Population change and demographic transition over time
- 1.2.3 Migration - knowledge and understanding
- 1.2.4 Forced migrations - detailed examples
- 1.3.1 Population trends
- 1.3.2 Ageing societies - Japan
- 1.3.3 Gender equality policies
- 1.3.5 Demographic dividend
- 2.1.3 The enhanced greenhouse effect
- 2.2.1 Climate change and the hydrosphere and atmosphere
- 2.2.2 Climate change and the incidence and severity of extreme weather events
- 2.2.3 Climate change and the biosphere
- 2.2.4 Impacts of climate change on people and places
- 2.3.3 Mitigation strategies
- 2.3.4 Civil society and corporate strategies
- 3.1.1 Poverty reduction
- 3.1.3 Ecological footprints
- 3.1.4 Water, land and food
- 3.1.5 Energy
- 3.2.2 Water, food and energy
- 3.2.3 Recycling and waste
- 3.3.1 Divergent thinking
- 3.3.2 The circular economy
- 3.3.3 Resource stewardship and the UN SDGs
Visual stimulus
- 1.1.1 Global population distribution
- 1.1.2 Global patterns of economic development
- 1.1.3 Population distribution and economic development at the national scale
- 1.2.1 Population change and demographic transition over time
- 1.2.3 Migration - knowledge and understanding
- 1.3.1 Population trends
- 1.3.2 Ageing societies - Japan
- 1.3.3 Gender equality policies
- 1.3.4 Anti-trafficking policies
- 2.1.1 The atmospheric system
- 2.1.3 The enhanced greenhouse effect
- 2.2.1 Climate change and the hydrosphere and atmosphere
- 2.2.2 Climate change and the incidence and severity of extreme weather events
- 2.2.3 Climate change and the biosphere
- 2.3.1 Climate change risk and vulnerability
- 2.3.2 Global geopolitical efforts
- 2.3.3 Mitigation strategies
- 3.1.1 Poverty reduction
- 3.1.2 The growth of the “new global middle class”
- 3.1.3 Ecological footprints
- 3.1.4 Water, land and food
- 3.1.5 Energy
- 3.2.1 Nexus Thinking
- 3.2.3 Recycling and waste
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