How do you know what you don’t know? - Issue #14
All Geographers
Super useful, downloadable (and printable) PDFs with up to date demographic data. I also like how PRB separates countries into the UN Statistic Division Geographic Regions - which I mentioned in Issue #13.
I recently updated 1.2.1 Population change to make use of the 2021 World Population Data Sheet.
IB DP Geographers
"The FT’s visual vocabulary poster for schools, distributed with the Royal Geographical Society."
This free resource from the Financial Times is useful for numerous elements of the IB DP Geography course. The language used on the 'Visual Vocabulary' helps students develop their descriptions and commentary upon infographics. The resource also helps discussions about data presentation in student Internal Assessments and Extended Essays.
The Financial Times has much to offer IB DP Geography students. Make sure you and your students have free access to the Financial Times here.
Updates
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending the 2022 Geographical Association Conference held at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK.
I was involved in the presentation of two sessions, as well as livestreaming the annual TeachMeet, and organising the Beer Meet. The webpage above shares the slides I used, important links, and the recording of the TeachMeet. It is all worth an explore.
Random
Highlighting while reading has enormous benefits.
This is an update upon a 'Random' recommendation from Issue #8. Raindrop.io - the bookmarking service that I recommend - now allows you to highlight web content. This is a great addition and therefore worth another mention in this newsletter.
To take things a couple of steps more geeky → using IFTTT (a service I will probably recommend in a future issue) you can do things such as automatically add highlights to a document or a spreadsheet.
