IBGEO@NIST Scoopit
The IBGEO@NIST Scoopit is at this link: IBGEO@NIST Scoopit Site
The aim of the IB Geo at NIST Scoopit is to keep you up to date with relevant current events. The Geo Scoopit is updated almost daily with relevant current events. The events can be tagged making it easy for you to find contemporary case studies for all aspects of the syllabus. They are also placed in most recent chronological order meaning the events you see first are the most recent. The Soopit also helps meet the three main aims of IB Geography which are:
IB Geography aims
The aims of the geography course at SL and HL are to enable students to:
- develop an understanding of the dynamic interrelationships between people, places, spaces and the environment at different scales
- develop a critical awareness and consider complexity thinking in the context of the nexus of geographic issues, including:
- acquiring an in-depth understanding of how geographic issues, or wicked problems, have been shaped by powerful human and physical processes
- synthesizing diverse geographic knowledge in order to form viewpoints about how these issues could be resolved
- understand and evaluate the need for planning and sustainable development through the management of resources at varying scales.
