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
- 1.3.3 Gender equality policies
- 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
- 6.2.1 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
- 1.1.2 Global patterns of economic development
- 1.3.3 Gender equality policies
- 2.2.2 Climate change and the incidence and severity of extreme weather events
- 3.1.1 Poverty reduction
- 3.1.5 Energy
- fh.2.1 The merits of a systems approach
- fh.2.2 Variations in food consumption
- fh.2.4 Vector-borne and water-borne diseases
Densities
Development diamonds
Dot maps
Flow diagrams
- 2.1.1 The atmospheric system
- 2.2.1 Climate change and the hydrosphere and atmosphere
- 3.2.1 Nexus Thinking
- 3.2.3 Recycling and waste
- 3.3.2 The circular economy
- 4.2.4 Foreign Direct Investment and outsourcing
- 5.1.3 Social entrepreneurship
- ee.1.4 Changing distribution of extreme environments over time
- fh.1.4 The disease continuum and the implications of a global ageing population
- fh.2.1 The merits of a systems approach
- fw.1.1 The drainage basin as an open system
- fw.1.4 River landforms
- fw.2.1 Flood risk within a drainage basin
- fw.3.2 Environmental consequences of agricultural activities on water quality
Flow maps
Ground-level photographs
Isoline and isopleth maps
Line graphs
- 1.1.1 Global population distribution
- 1.2.1 Population change and demographic transition over time
- 1.2.1 Population change and Iceland
- 1.3.2 Ageing societies - Japan
- 2.2.1 Climate change and the hydrosphere and atmosphere
- 3.1.4 The availability and consumption of water, land and food
- 3.1.5 Energy
- 3.2.2 Water, food and energy (and Iceland)
- 6.1.4 Globalization and nationalism
- 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
- fw.2.1 Flood risk within a drainage basin
