G9 and G10 MYP History and Geography Revision Flashcards
Statement of Inquiry and Key Concepts
Global Competition for Resources
- Statement: Global competition for resources can be a cause of conflict, and peacemaking is dependent on global cooperation and justice.
- Global context: Identities and relationships
- Key concept: Relationships
- Related concepts: Causality
Inquiry Questions for History MYP Topics from Grade 9 and 10
G10 Topic: Peace and War
Key Concept: Relationships
Related Concepts: Causality
Inquiry Questions:
1. Why do nations go to war and why is peacemaking difficult?
2. What were the key events that led to the outbreak of the First and Second World Wars?
3. What were the challenges to making a lasting peace?
4. Why do nations resort to waging war?
5. Why is a lasting peace so difficult to maintain?
6. Why do historians have different perspectives on the causes of war?
7. To what extent can war be prevented and peace be established and maintained?
G10 Topic: Civil Rights and Social Protest
Key Concepts: Change and systems
Related Concepts: Causality, Choice, Identity
Global Contexts: Identities and relationships, Fairness and development
Statement of Inquiry: When individuals and societies mobilize with a common perspective and goal, they can bring about non-violent change to long-standing and inequitable systems.
Inquiry Questions:
1. What can visual sources tell us about historical situations?
2. Who were key individuals in the American civil rights and social protest movement?
3. What have been the successes and failures of civil rights and protest groups?
4. What are the different methods of social protest?
5. What cultural and societal conditions need to exist for social protest to take place?
6. Is violent protest demanding change ever justified?
7. Will racism ever be eradicated in the world?
8. What were the most significant forms of social protest used in the American civil rights movement?
9. How have media and technology influenced 20th and 21st-century social protest movements?
10. What are the characteristics of successful social protest movements?
11. How has social protest changed in the 21st century?
G10 Topic: Industrialization and Technological Developments
Key Concepts: Change
Related Concepts: Innovation and revolution
Global Contexts: Scientific and technical innovations
Statement of Inquiry: Innovations in science and technology can lead to revolutionary changes in the way we live and work.
Inquiry Questions:
1. What factors are necessary for industrial revolution to occur?
2. What factors were necessary for the Industrial Revolution (IR) to start in Britain?
3. What key inventions drove the IR?
4. How are causal factors linked?
5. Can innovations lead to revolutionary change?
6. To what extent can innovation and revolutionary change bring benefits to society?
7. Did industrialization create more winners than losers?
G9/10 Topic: Significant Individuals
Key Concepts: Global interactions
Related Concepts: Significance
Global Contexts: Fairness and development
Statement of Inquiry: Individuals can play a key role in the development of their nation-states and in the nature and development of global interactions.
Inquiry Questions:
1. What significant individuals have you studied?
2. How have these individuals been a force for:
a. Socio-economic change?
b. Political and ideological change?
c. Health and welfare change?
d. Societal and interstate conflict?
3. To what extent are world-changing events shaped by significant individuals?
G9 Topic: Empires, Supra-national Organizations, and Superpowers
Key Concepts: Global interactions
Related Concepts: Culture, Interdependence
Global Contexts: Orientation in space and time
Statement of Inquiry: Students will understand that colonialism leads to a significant and lasting international exchange of resources, culture, and ideas.
Inquiry Questions:
1. What aid and exchanges developed from trade?
2. What role do economic self-interest and ideology play in the development of empires?
3. In what ways can nations dominate other nations?
4. How can interactions between states lead to cooperation and cultural exchange?
5. How can interactions lead to exploitation and hostility?
6. How far do you agree that imperialism brings benefits to:
a. The colonized?
b. The colonists?
7. Does globalization harm people more than it helps?
Geography Topics for the I&S Integrated Humanities e-Assessment
G9 Topic: Population
Key Concept: Time, place, and space
Related Concepts: Disparity and equity, Patterns and trends
Global Context: Fairness and development
Inquiry Questions:
1. How is the world’s population and wealth distributed today?
2. In what ways can we measure population change?
3. How can we classify migrants?
4. Why do people migrate?
5. How does low fertility affect a country?
6. How does high population growth create disparities in a place?
7. Where do we find the data, and how do we sample it?
8. Why is the changing structure of a country’s population important?
9. How does migration change countries of origin and destination?
10. How do we conduct an inquiry into population change and disparities in wealth?
11. What are the possibilities to manage migration?
12. Is gender equity necessary when it comes to family size?
13. How do we analyze it?
G9 Topic: Sustainable Cities - Urbanization
Key Concepts: Systems
Related Concepts: Management and intervention, Networks, Sustainability
Global Contexts: Scientific and technical innovation
Statement of Inquiry: Students will understand that pressure on the networks within city systems creates a tension between growth and sustainable innovations to manage these systems in the future.
Inquiry Questions:
1. Why do cities continue to grow?
2. What problems emerge as cities grow?
3. What strategies exist to reduce the negative impacts of urbanization?
4. How do we measure the ecological footprint of a city?
5. What indicators can we use to measure quality of life in a city?
6. How do cities feed themselves?
Branches in Urbanization Inquiry
Branch 1: The Urbanization Process
Branch 2: Cities and Sustainability
1. What is a circular system and why is this a more sustainable model?
2. How can we define sustainability in a city?
3. What innovations are already being used to reduce the ecological footprint of a city?Branch 3: City Systems
1. What systems drive a city?
2. How are city systems changing as they grow?
3. What makes a 'smart' city?
4. Why are networks so important in cities?Branch 4: Management and Intervention
1. Is the growth of cities always a bad thing?
2. Who should decide how to manage a city's systems?
G9 Topic: It’s All Connected
Key Concepts: Global interaction
Related Concepts: Globalization, Management and intervention
Global Contexts: Globalization and sustainability
Statement of Inquiry: Students will understand that a globalized world means that the choices we make as consumers have global effects on environments and societies.
Inquiry Questions:
1. What are the impacts of the everyday products that I consume?
2. What is the difference between a linear and a circular economy?
3. How does the supply chain of most products operate from extracting raw materials to manufacturing, consuming, and disposing of the product?
4. What is globalization?
Global Interactions and Ecological Footprint
Branch 1: Globalization and Resources
Branch 2: Global Interactions and Ecological Footprint
1. How has outsourcing increased global interactions?
2. What are the global consequences of our consumption?
3. How does our increased resource consumption affect our ecological footprint?Branch 3: The Circular Economy
1. How does a circular model of production lead to more sustainable management of resources?Branch 4: Consumer Culture and Sustainability
1. Can the environment sustain current levels of consumption?
2. Can individuals make a significant difference by changing their consumption habits?
G9 Topic: In What Ways Does Globalization Affect Us?
Key Concept: Global interaction
Related Concepts: Culture, Equity
Global Context: Fairness and development
Statement of Inquiry: Globalization is an exchange process of commodities, finance, and culture helping countries to develop, with effects that may be fair or unfair.
Inquiry Questions:
1. What is the pattern of global trade?
2. What are the patterns and trends in global interactions?
3. What are the main types of international flows?
4. Why is global trade unfair?
5. How can global trade be fair for all?
6. Has global trade failed poor countries?
7. Are poor countries helping to develop rich countries?
8. What is aid?
9. How can aid help reduce disparities and inequalities?
10. Is aid an effective strategy for ending poverty?
11. How do labour and information flows change due to global interactions?
12. Should cultural exchanges be seen as a positive or negative of globalization?
13. What is the difference between cultural diffusion and cultural dilution?
G10 Topic: Natural Environments Under Pressure
Key Concepts: Change
Related Concepts: Causality (cause and consequence), Sustainability
Global Contexts: Scientific and technical innovation
Statement of Inquiry: Population change has created a system in which scientific innovation is crucial to prevent environmental loss.
Inquiry Questions:
1. How is the world’s population and wealth distributed today?
2. In what ways can we measure population change?
3. How can we explain population change?
4. How has resource consumption changed over time?
5. Can we consume natural resources sustainably?
Sustainable Management of Biomes
Branch 1: Sustainable Management of the Tropical Rainforest Biome
1. What are the characteristics of the tropical rainforest biome?
2. Why is this biome under pressure?
3. How can management strategies reduce pressure on biomes?
4. Is it possible for management and development of biomes to be sustainable?Branch 2: Sustainable Management of Cold Biomes
1. What are the characteristics of the arctic biome?
2. Why is this biome under pressure?
3. How can management strategies reduce pressure on biomes?
4. Is it possible for management and development of biomes to be sustainable?
kexamples of peace treaties
Treaty of Versailles