Students may resubmit formative assessment assignments with revisions on feedback and receive higher scores until the day that the unit summative assessment is administered. Resources Enrichment Strategies Nagle, G. & Cooke, B. Geography Course Companion. Due to the nature of the IB Geography curriculum, it is difficult to envision an approach to enrichment. The course is taught with the expectation that its University of Wisconsin, Atlas of the Biosphere content and standards for performance are equivalent to those of a first-year United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report college survey course, and students who choose to enroll in this course do so and in anticipation that the course, in and of itself, is an enrichment of their education in history. Opportunities for enrichment lay in students’ choices to Barnett, Thomas P. M. The Pentagon’s New Map expand specific inquiries in each unit and in the instructors’ freedom and Davidson, Adam, Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor?” flexibility (given the additional instructional hours built into this course beyond “Why the minimum required by IB) to allow for additional days to indulge that PBS, Race 2012: Ethnic versus Racial Group expanded inquiry. IB Diploma Programme students may also choose to focus AfricaKnowledgeZone, Kenya: Ethnicity and Equality their Extended Essay on one of the topics from any unit. A Nation” Episode 28: Quiet Revolution and the FLQ “Quebec: Canadian Broadcasting Company, 1995 election Quebec Referendum coverage International Monetary Fund, The March of the Cities Journeyman Pictures, Filipino Turning Rags Into High Fashion” “The Journeyman Pictures: Rio’s New Walls Protecting the Environment “Are or the Government?” McCloud, Kevin, It” “Slumming United Nations, Slum Survivors Vocativ, World’s Tallest Slum: Caracas’ Notorious Tower of David” “The The Economist, Education and Inequality: School Years Neuwirth, Robert, TED: The Power of the Informal Economy UNICEF, Working Paper: Beyond the Bottom Billion United Nations, Millennium Development Goals Official Site Pete McCormack and Tim Hardy, Hope in the Time of AIDS
Students may resubmit formative assessment assignments with revisions on feedback and receive higher scores until the day that the unit summative assessment is administered. Resources Nagle, G. & Cooke, B. Geography Course Companion. University of Wisconsin, Atlas of the Biosphere United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report and Barnett, Thomas P. M. The Pentagon’s New Map Davidson, Adam, “Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor?” PBS, Race 2012: Ethnic versus Racial Group AfricaKnowledgeZone, Kenya: Ethnicity and Equality “Quebec: A Nation” Episode 28: Quiet Revolution and the FLQ Canadian Broadcasting Company, 1995 election Quebec Referendum coverage International Monetary Fund, The March of the Cities Journeyman Pictures, “The Filipino Turning Rags Into High Fashion” Journeyman Pictures: “Are Rio’s New Walls Protecting the Environment or the Government?” McCloud, Kevin, “Slumming It” United Nations, Slum Survivors Vocativ, “The World’s Tallest Slum: Caracas’ Notorious Tower of David” The Economist, Education and Inequality: School Years Neuwirth, Robert, TED: The Power of the Informal Economy UNICEF, Working Paper: Beyond the Bottom Billion United Nations, Millennium Development Goals Official Site Pete McCormack and Tim Hardy, Hope in the Time of AIDS Enrichment Strategies Due to the nature of the IB Geography curriculum, it is difficult to envision an approach to enrichment. The course is taught with the expectation that its content and standards for performance are equivalent to those of a first-year college survey course, and students who choose to enroll in this course do so in anticipation that the course, in and of itself, is an enrichment of their education in history. Opportunities for enrichment lay in students’ choices to expand specific inquiries in each unit and in the instructors’ freedom and flexibility (given the additional instructional hours built into this course beyond the minimum required by IB) to allow for additional days to indulge that expanded inquiry. IB Diploma Programme students may also choose to focus their Extended Essay on one of the topics from any unit.
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