Teaching Approaches & Skills Index
Browse all IB DP Geography lesson resources by the geographic skill they develop or the teaching approach they use. This cross-reference helps teachers plan skills coverage and find lessons that use specific tools.
Geographic Skills
Aerial photographs
Averages
Bar graphs
Choropleth maps
- 1.1.3 Population distribution and economic development at the national scale
- 1.2.3 Migration - knowledge and understanding
- 2.1.3 The enhanced greenhouse effect
- 2.3.1 Climate change risk and vulnerability
- 3.1.1 Poverty reduction
- 3.1.5 Energy
- 4.1.1 Global interactions
- 6.1.4 Globalization and nationalism
- 6.2.1 Transboundary pollution - Chernobyl
- ee.1.4 Changing distribution of extreme environments over time
- fh.1.1 Global patterns in nutrition indicators
- fh.1.3 Global patterns in health indicators
- fh.2.4 Vector-borne and water-borne diseases
Compound graphs
Development diamonds
Flow diagrams
Flow maps
Ground-level photographs
Isoline and isopleth maps
Line graphs
- 1.3.2 Ageing societies - Japan
- 3.1.4 The availability and consumption of water, land and food
- 3.1.5 Energy
- 6.3.3 New technologies for the management of global flows
- ee.1.3 Cold / high altitude extreme environments
- fh.1.1 Global patterns in nutrition indicators
- fh.1.2 The nutrition transition
- fw.1.2 River discharge and hydrographs
Logarithmic graphs
Lorenz curves
Pie charts
Population pyramids
Proportional symbols
Rose diagrams
Satellite images
Scatter graphs
Thematic maps
Treemaps
Triangular graphs
Teaching Approaches
Google Earth
Kahoot
Note taking frame
- 1.1.3 Population distribution and economic development at the national scale
- 1.3.2 Ageing societies - Japan
- 2.1.2 The global energy balance
- 2.2.4 Impacts of climate change on people and places
- 4.1.3 Powerful organizations and global groups
- 6.1.1 Geopolitical threats to individuals and businesses
- 6.2.1 Transboundary pollution - Chernobyl
- ee.1.1 Global distribution of extreme environments
- ee.2.1 Glacial landscapes
- ee.2.2 Periglacial landscapes
- fh.1.1 Global patterns in nutrition indicators
- fh.1.3 Global patterns in health indicators
- fh.2.4 Vector-borne and water-borne diseases
- fh.3.4 Famine
- fh.4.2 Contemporary approaches to food production
- fw.2.3 Flood mitigation
- fw.3.3 Growing human pressures on lakes and aquifers
- fw.3.4 Conflict over internationally shared water resources
- fw.4.1 Participation of local communities to improve water management
- fw.4.2 Multipurpose dams
Photography
Visual stimulus
- 1.1.1 Global population distribution
- 1.1.2 Global patterns of economic development
- 1.3.3 Gender equality policies
- 2.1.3 The enhanced greenhouse effect
- 2.2.1 Climate change and the hydrosphere and atmosphere
- 2.3.2 Global geopolitical efforts
- 2.3.3 Mitigation strategies
- 3.1.2 The growth of the “new global middle class”
- 3.1.4 The availability and consumption of water, land and food
- 3.1.5 Energy
- 3.2.1 Nexus Thinking
- 3.3.3 Resource stewardship and the UN SDGs
- 4.1.2 Global superpowers
- 4.2.1 Global networks and flows - Global trade
- 4.2.3 International aid, loans, debt relief and remittances
- 4.2.4 Foreign Direct Investment and outsourcing
- 4.3.2 Shrinking world - transport developments over time
- 6.1.1 Geopolitical threats to individuals and businesses
- 6.1.2 Profit repatriation and tax avoidance
- 6.2.4 Global shift of industry
- fh.1.4 The disease continuum and the implications of a global ageing population
- fh.2.2 Variations in food consumption
- fw.3.1 Water scarcity
