10/21
- More good news --
- Finish up the SWAYs about Bonnaroo
- They are due at the start of next class!
10/19
10/15
UNIT
- OPTION E -- Leisure, Tourism and Sport
GEOGRAPHIC INQUIRY
- Tourism and sport at the local and national scale
GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- How do physical and human factors shape places into sites of leisure?
CLASS ACTIVITIES
- Factors Affecting the geography of a national sports league
HOMEWORK
- Nothing formal -- go to the SC State Fair and think about it as a tourist site
- Is it a primary or secondary tourist resource?
- Does it qualify as a tourist hotspot?
- What type of tourist resources support the fair?
- Why is it in Columbia?
- What do you think the economic impact of the fair is on Columbia?
- Overall is the Fair good or bad for the city?
10/11
UNIT
- OPTION E -- Leisure, Tourism and Sport
GEOGRAPHIC INQUIRY
- Tourism and sport at the local and national scale
GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- How do human and physical factors shape PLACES into sites of leisure?
CLASS ACTIVITIES
HOMEWORK
- Chances are you didn't get to finish this so...make sure its done next class!
10/7
UNIT
- OPTION E -- Leisure, Tourism and Sport
GEOGRAPHIC INQUIRY
- Tourism and sport at the local and national scale
GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- How do human and physical factors shape PLACES into sites of leisure?
CLASS ACTIVITIES
- Today we'll dive into why some places become tourist hotspots and the role of primary and secondary resources (Thanks https://www.jkgeography.com/ for the lesson!)
- Use the following link to complete the work below IN YOUR NOTEBOOK -- https://www.jkgeography.com/factors-affecting-growth-of-tourism-hotspots.html
- Create a quick T-Chart primary resources v secondary tourist resources (defs and examples!)
- Complete the picture activity on this page
- Next we'll watch some YouTube videos
- As we watch answer the following:
- What is a Tourist Hotspot?
- Next let's take a look at where hotspots are
- Study the table below which shows the top 15 tourist hotspots in the world. Consider the following:
- What proportion of the hotspots are in the USA? What factors will have contributed to this pattern?
- What proportion of the attractions are based on human rather than physical attractions?
- What proportion are based on primary and secondary attractions?

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-world-s-most-popular-tourist-attractions.html
- Take some brief notes on the PHYSICAL and HUMAN factors that create a tourist hotspot
Have a great weekend!
10/5
- NO CLASS -- COLLEGE FAIR!
9/29
UNIT
- OPTION E -- Leisure, Tourism and Sport
GEOGRAPHIC INQUIRY
- Factors affecting participation in sport and tourism
GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- How do human development processes give rise to leisure activities?
CLASS ACTIVITIES
- Quick recap of the notes from last time
- IB says you also need to know about...
- The link between economic development and participation in leisure activities
- Detailed examples to illustrate recent changes in participation for two or more societies at contrasting stages of development
- This should take the form of detailed notes and graphs and charts in your NOTEBOOK.
- You can work with one other person
- It should take a while because finding stuff on a country that is at a different level of development should take you a few more than a few minutes.
HOMEWORK
9/27/21
UNIT
- OPTION E -- Leisure, Tourism and Sport
GEOGRAPHIC INQUIRY
- Factors affecting participation in sport and tourism
GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- How do human development processes give rise to leisure activities?
CLASS ACTIVITIES
- Go over the handout from last class
- Short PowerPoint notes
- Review the articles that you found for homework last week!
9/23/21
UNIT
- OPTION E -- Leisure, Tourism and Sport
GEOGRAPHIC INQUIRY
- Changing Leisure Patterns
GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- How do human development processes give rise to leisure activities?
CLASS ACTIVITIES
- Not the world's most interesting day
- More information!
- Complete this thing using the TEXTBOOK!
- We will go over it after you are done
HOMEWORK
9/21/21
UNIT
- OPTION E -- Leisure, Tourism and Sport
GEOGRAPHIC INQUIRY
- Changing Leisure Patterns
GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- How do human development processes give rise to leisure activities?
CLASS ACTIVITIES
- Discuss the article from last class -- BUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGsssssssss
- Let's get dug into our first topic!
- Take a shot at this document -- good into and previewing activity
- Next, let's take some notes on LTS
- Find a CURRENT EVENT article that relates to Leisure, Tourism, & Sport
- Don't just find a story about a game -- instead try to find something about the IMPACT of this stuff on a place.
- Be ready to share with the class -- i.e talk like a human about it!
- PLACES TO FIND AN ARTICLE:
HOMEWORK
- Think about how YOU spend your leisure time
- Try to keep track TOMORROW (Thursday) of how you spend your leisure time. We'll discuss FRIDAY!
9/15 & 9/17
UNIT
- Option F -- Food and Health
GEOGRAPHIC INQUIRY
- Future Health and food security and sustainability
GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- Explain the future possibilities for sustainable agriculture and improved health
CLASS ACTIVITIES
- Your job is to create memes that review food and health. You must create at least THREE relevant memes for each of the following:
- The five parts of the IB guide for Food and Health. You can create more than 15 memes (I will take only the highest scoring 10) but I will only review those that are submitted in the proper format.
- This will count as a test grade.
- Format
- Using MICROSOFT PUBLISHER you will organize your memes in the following way: #1 — Option f: Food and Health: Global Patterns in food/nutrition indicators, including the food security index, the hunger index, calories per person/capita, indicators of malnutrition
9/9/21
UNIT
- Option F -- Food and Health
GEOGRAPHIC INQUIRY
- Future Health and food security and sustainability
GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- Explain the future possibilities for sustainable agriculture and improved health
CLASS ACTIVITIES
EBOLA DAY 2
HOMEWORK
- I'm pretty sure that's it kids! Have a great night!
9/7/21
UNIT
- Option F -- Food and Health
GEOGRAPHIC INQUIRY
- Future Health and food security and sustainability
GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- Explain the future possibilities for sustainable agriculture and improved health
CLASS ACTIVITIES
- Let's spend some quality time with EBOLA!
- TASK 1
- Background/Basic Knowledge!
- Watch the YouTube clip below to find out more about the disease. Write down what a description of what the disease is.
- What is the epidemiology of Ebola? (The means of infection.)
- What are the symptoms of Ebola?
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TASK 2
- TASK 3 -- Social Impact of Ebola
- How and why are people stigmatised if they have Ebola. Consider the different scales that this could be looked at.
- Why do sufferers of Ebola not go to the hospital?
- TASK 4 -- Prevention vs Cure
- Describe the treatments for Ebola.
- How successful have those treatments been?
- How costly have the treatments for Ebola been?
- How can the contraction of Ebola be prevented?
- What are the barriers to the prevention of Ebola?
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/24/world/africa/2015-02-24-ebola-outbreak.html
- https://youtu.be/60H12HUAb6M -- We'll watch this together
9/2
- Finish up the large paper Food and Health Reviews from last class!
- Go over ALLLLLLLLL the review documents (1 pagers and paper ones)
- This will take a minute so settle in!
- We'll dive back into content next week after Labor Day!
8/31/21
- And just like that, Codega's back!
- Thanks for being nice kids while I was gone!
- Let's go over the 1 pagers together. DO NOT JUST READ THESE! Hit the highlights / essential info in like less than 2-3 minutes!
- Quickly cover the articles from last class and Codega will check them for a grade!
- Next we need to look at stuff we should know for Food and Health.
- Did we finish that unit??
- Let's review what we did accomplish!
8/27/21
- Email me ( john.codega@richlandone.org ) your review document
- Today we'll finish up some review before we dive into your senior year content!
- Read the following articles
- Codega will check this on Tuesday! Have a great weekend and looking forward to seeing you guys!
8/25/21
- Sorry guys -- COVID brain fog is real! I thought I had uploaded your work but....
- Anyway, my bad and I'll have some work for you Friday!
8/23/21
- Codega's out -- I'm fine but I won't be back until Monday Aug 30th.
- Check this space for work each class period!
- Today:
- Continue to work on the review one page documents
- They need to be:
- Easy to read and digest (that means NO paragraphs of text / must function as a STUDY Guide)
- Can be more than one page
- Include pictures / graphs / maps / charts / whatever to help reinforce concepts.
- Since you have two full class periods to complete these they had better be good!
- If you finish early please look over your notes and the textbook to check that you didn't miss anything vital! THEN you can work on other IB stuff -- please don't waste this valuable chance to get ahead your senior year!
- Again. check this space next class for more information!
- Have a great day, wear a mask, and stay safe out in these streets!
8/18/21
Welcome Back!
- What did you guys get up to this summer?
- Now some good news -- https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/delta-has-changed-pandemic-endgame/619726/
- Uhhhh....wait....not really.....
- Before we hit new content let's create some review guides for what we completed last year. Let's keep it pretty simple.
- 1 page document that hits all the info from the guide.
- There are 9 of you and 9 parts of the guide for the core content.
- These need to be intentional and well designed -- make sure it's the type of thing that you will actually use 9 months from now when preparing for this IB exam!
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