International Baccalaureate · IB Diploma
Geography · SL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course.
Course units and learning goals
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme.
Core global change · Population patterns and development
- Interpret population distribution and demographic change
- Compare development evidence at different spatial scales
- population density
- Population divided by area.
- spatial scale
- The geographic level at which a pattern is examined.
Core global change · Climate vulnerability and resource security
- Explain exposure, vulnerability, adaptation and resilience
- Evaluate resource consumption and security using place-specific evidence
- vulnerability
- Susceptibility to harm under particular conditions.
- resilience
- Capacity to prepare for, respond to and recover from disruption.
Selected options and fieldwork · Geographic inquiry and sampling
- Develop a syllabus-linked fieldwork question
- Collect, display, analyse and evaluate real geographic data
- fieldwork
- Collection of geographic evidence in the setting studied.
- sampling
- Selecting observations from a wider population or area.
Preparing for this qualification
- SL: option Paper 1 90 min 35%, core Paper 2 75 min 40%, fieldwork 25%. HL: Paper 1 135 min 35%, Paper 2 75 min 25%, extension Paper 3 60 min 20%, fieldwork 20%.
- School chooses two of seven options at SL and three at HL: freshwater, oceans/coasts, extreme environments, hazards, leisure/tourism/sport, food/health, urban environments. Introductory lessons do not claim to teach every option.
Teaching coverage still needed
- Every selected geographic option and its objective-level guide needs dedicated teaching; full global-change/global-interactions depth and real fieldwork evidence remain.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
Specifications and sample documents
- Geography — Subject brief · 2019 ↗
First assessment: 2019
Course materials
Course preparation
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course.
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