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IB Geography & Chemistry IB Geography & Chemistry Revision WeekendRevision Weekend

April 8-10 2011 April 8-10 2011

Saturday – Geog Plan of ActionSaturday – Geog Plan of Action

• 9.30 – 10.00 – Introduction and Exam format explained.

• 10.00 – 12.45 - Student led activities.

• 15.30 – 18.30 – Practicing Exam Technique. Paper 1 and mark schemes

• 20.00 – Timed Exam Practice

• 21.00 – Free time.

Sunday – Geog Plan of Action

• 9.30 – 12.00. Paper 2 Exam Technique.

• 12.00 – 12.30 – Debrief

• Homeward bound.

Saturday 10.00 – 12.45

• Student Led Activities.

• You have 75 minutes to plan and prepare an activity to deliver to the rest of the group.

• Each activity utilises a different learing style.

• You must take no more than 10 minutes to deliver your mini lesson.

Activity 1 – Migration Drama.Activity 1 – Migration Drama.

• Migration – 4 Minute Play• Covering types of migration including

external and internal migrations.• Lee’s Migration Model• Push and Pull factors• Impacts on destination and country of

origin (positive and negative effects)• Use page 19-20 of IB revision guide to

help you.

Activity 2 – Taboo and PictionaryActivity 2 – Taboo and Pictionary

• Taboo for 8 key words. PowerPoint slide with key word stated and a list of words that ‘describers’ are not allowed to say.

• Another 5 models to be described as a pictionary game.

MigrationMigration

Movement

Opposite

People

Birds

Place

Lee’s Model

Ravensteins

Activity 3 - Activity 3 - Who Wants to be a Millionnaire Gameshow?

• Create a game that increases in difficulty covering the whole of the Core Theme

• Another with a mixture of questions from Freshwater and SLT (can be used back in school).

• Use the revision guide to help you. • (Template and music available on slideshare)

Activity 4 Activity 4 Maps from MemoryOne blank world map. Identify the case study countries and annotate the main features of the case study. Students then get into groups and have 1 minute (at a time) to study the map, remember the content and then return to their tables to fill in their own blank map with case study material as well as memorising locations.

Create a map from memory showing disparities that exist resulting from:

1. Ethnicity - Zimbabwe2. Residence – USA3. Parental Education – UK and university places4. Income - Dubai5. Employment - Dubai6. Land Ownership – Zimbabwe (Mugabe and the White African)

Activity 5 - Activity 5 - Treasure Treasure Hunt.Hunt.

• Millennium Development Goals – Treasure Hunt.

• The eight MDG’s will be hidden around the grounds of the centre. Clues available.

• At each location there will be a sheet showing the full name of the goal, a set target and an e.g. case study country.

• Students must memorise the information and get back to their recording sheet and fill in the missing information.

• This is a competition and the first team to fully fill in their crib sheet will win. (very competitive and active 20 mins!)

• Clue locations can be related to the MDG themselves. For the environmental sustainability goal, the clue was hidden on the side of a recycling bin. For the maternal health MDG, the clue was hidden in a babies cot in the centre etc etc.

Activity 6 – Population Pyramid Activity 6 – Population Pyramid Card SortCard Sort

• Provide a layout frame on A3• Provide 4 population pyramid diagrams

(rough)• Provide 5 statements to go with each.• Class have 2 minutes to sort them into the

correct order (LEDC – MEDC) and sort the correct statements underneath.

• Winner Prize• Loser Sweet and Sour Forfeit.

Activity 7 Case Study – Activity 7 Case Study – MEMORY!MEMORY!

• Case study memory Game.• Link up case study to syllabus content

then to a positive and negative effect• 12 syllabus content cards lifted from the

specification. Each with a case study and a positive and negative ‘effect’ card.

• Students have to complete a game of memory

• See example uploaded to SlideShare.