Webpage to help the teaching of the following syllabus point:

• Definition:
  
  • Distinguish between a hazard event and a disaster. Explain why this distinction is not always completely objective.
• Measuring Disasters:
  
  • Describe the methods used to quantify the spatial extent and intensity of disasters.
  • Explain the causes and impacts of any one disaster resulting from a natural hazard.
  • Explain the causes and impacts of any one recent human-induced hazard event or disaster.
  • Examine the ways in which the intensity and impacts of disasters vary in space and have changed over time.

The webpage works on the assumption that the students have already looked at a variety of different case studies.  It includes an open-ended task based upon hazard data and news articles to aid discussion about  the methods used to quantify the spatial extent and intensity of disasters.

Each week a new image is added to the homepage of geographyalltheway.com. If you can name the country from the image, enter the competition! The competition is open to everybody - the winner being chosen from all the correct answers received. The winner receives a unique certificate via email.

Weather and Climate lesson resources based upon the idea of 'Too Hot'.

Resources include YouTube clips to encourage discussion, a note taking exercise, a case study exercise and a look a heat wave management.

Each week a new image is added to the homepage of geographyalltheway.com. If you can name the country from the image, enter the competition! The competition is open to everybody - the winner being chosen from all the correct answers received. The winner receives a unique certificate via email.

Lesson resources to help cover the following IB Geography syllabus point:

Hazard event prediction

• Examine the methods used to make estimates (predictions) of the probability (in time and space) of hazard events occurring, and of their potential impact on lives and property.
• Discuss these methods by examining case studies relating to two different hazard types.

Resources include video clips, points for discussion and note taking as well as a directed research activity looking at prediction methods and the case studies the students have already completed.

Each week a new image is added to the homepage of geographyalltheway.com. If you can name the country from the image, enter the competition! The competition is open to everybody - the winner being chosen from all the correct answers received. The winner receives a unique certificate via email.

Lesson resources designed to help tackle the following part of the IB Geography Hazards and Disasters Optional Theme:

• Analysis of risk
  • Examine the relationships between the degree of risk posed by a hazard and the probability of a hazard event occurring, the predicted losses and a community’s preparedness for it.
  • Explain the reasons why individuals and communities often underestimate the probability of hazard events occurring.
  • Discuss the factors that determine an individual’s perception of the risk posed by hazards.

The resources include images and a video to start discussions on risk, a note taking task, a matrix worksheet to look at examples and relationships and some news articles to help look at individual's perceptions.

Each week a new image is added to the homepage of geographyalltheway.com. If you can name the country from the image, enter the competition! The competition is open to everybody - the winner being chosen from all the correct answers received. The winner receives a unique certificate via email.

A lesson focused upon the instruments used to measure the weather.  Images are available to aid discussion.  For a creative second half of the lesson students design a 'Heath Robinson' weather station.

A lesson based upon looking at the current weather in Switzerland for various locations.  Latitude and altitude data is also collected for these locations.  Variations in the current weather are documented, explored, described and explained.

Although the lesson is based upon Switzerland it could easily be remodelled for any other country ot region.