Year 12 TOK Presentations - IMPORTANT

You have all received a TOK presentations handout that contains all relevant information on your presentation and what it must include. Please ask me for a handout if you have misplaced it or not received it (very important!). You can also DOWNLOAD this handout by clicking on the link on the right side of this blog page.

I would like you to get yourselves into groups (3 max) and decide on the topic of your presentation. Once you have done this you must respond to this post (comments link below), listing your group members and topic. Deadline is Tuesday 12th May (Day 1).

I will then assign you a date for your presentation. All presentations will start after May week. The first two presentations will be on Day 1, 27th May.

Remember: This is an integral part of your assessment for TOK and if you do not complete it you risk failing the course and therefore your IB Diploma!

The deadline for doing this is: Tuesday 12th May (Day 1)

This deadline is absolute and you will not be given the opportunity to submit your proposal after this date.

Year 12 - Coastal Hazards Online Game

Please click on the following link to play the UN/ISDR "Stop Disasters" game! Choose either the "Tsunami" or "Hurricane" scenario and save the planet :)

http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/home.html

Have fun!

Mr. Jonsson

Year 10 Rivers Coursework

You will have received your instructions in the form of a booklet. Your homework this cycle for next Day 5 (Friday 8th May) is the following:

• Select your 2 hypotheses (one from list A, one from list B). You can do a third if you like (either select it from list A or list B or come up with your own).
  
• Write your introduction (which should contain the aim of your project, locational background and justification of hypotheses).
  
• Write your methodology.
  
• Data presentation (where you present your data in the form of graphs, fieldsketches, photographs, tables etc. - all depending on which hypotheses you have chosen).

Make sure you read the entire booklet before you start writing and follow any advice given. You can also download the booklet using the "resources download" link in the right hand column of this blog page. There you will also find advice on various hypotheses and a very good pdf document on river field-work techniques (like how to use a clinometer, measure velocity with a flow meter etc.). I encourage you all to download all of these resources and put them onto a pen-drive.

The final hand-in date for your coursework is Friday, 5th June. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Good luck and have fun! :)

Year 12 Holderness Case Study Information

Year 12 IB Geography - Coasts

You have been asked to produce a 500 word case study of the "Holderness" coastline in the UK.

Make sure that you answer the following questions within your case study:

• Outline and describe the different factors that contribute to the rapid erosion rates along the Holderness coastline (Tip: think "terrestrial", "atmospheric", etc.).
  
• Which coastal hazards dominate this coastline? Why?
  
• Outline the problems caused by the rapid erosion rates along the Holderness coastline (Tip: divide your response into "economic", "social", "environmental" etc.).
  
• What is being done to manage the coastline? (Tip: management strategies)
  
• What effects have these management strategies had on the coastline and the human settlements along it?

Due first Day 4 after the Easter break.

TOK Year 12 Mini essay for internal assessment

Your TOK teacher will have given you a selection of 5 essay titles to go away and research. These essays have then to be written up in class as part of an internal assessment. The titles are:

• Are some ways of knowing more likely than others to lead to truth?
  
• How can the different ways of knowing help us to distinguish between something that is true and something that is believed to be true?
  
• “We see and understand things not as they are but as we are.” Discuss this claim in relation to at least one way of knowing.
  
• Does having a definitive answer make a question more or less important? Discuss this question in relation to at least one area of knowledge.
  
• Can a machine know?

It is a good idea to focus on the "natural sciences" as this is the area of knowledge we have covered so far.

You are free to bring notes with you into the essay writing class but cannot bring a completed essay.

I encourage you all to make use of the various TOK books in the library. Ask Ms. Wilkinson for a TOK leaflet. You should also make use of the various TOK links found on this blog (right hand side column). Make sure you take a look at this page:

http://peernet.lbpc.ca/tok/tokassessment/tokessay/02tokessaystp1.html

The school "intranet" also has a great TOK page, containing a lot of useful information that you can use.

On the right hand side of this blog you can see a download link. Click on this link to access the ESSAY CRITERA that will be used to mark your essay. These are the same criteria that will be used to mark your final essay next year.

You can also access the criteria on our school intranet. Click on the "Seniors" tab and choose CAS, TOK and EE. On the page that follows choose "TOK" and then click on "ESSAY" at the top of the page. On that page click on "Criteria" under the "Essay" heading.

Good luck and enjoy!

Mr. Jonsson

TOK essay - November 2008

•“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world” - A. Einstein

•“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination” – A. Einstein

•“Imagination depends mainly on memory but there is a small percentage of creation of something out of nothing with it. We can invent a trifle more than can be got at by mere combination of remembered things” - S. Butler.

•“Imagination is the innate ability and process to invent partial or complete personal realms within the mind from elements derived from sense perception of the shared world” - Wikipedia.

Compare the roles played by Reason and Imagination in the natural sciences. (500 words)

Due next day 1

There are many and various texts in the library that you can look up. Ask Ms. Wilkinson for the TOK leaflet for a list of books. You could also ask your Physics/Chemistry/Biology teacher for some thoughts!

Year 13 Geography - Cultural Integration essay

Globalisation homework

Dicuss how technological change, transnational corporations (TNCs), global media networks, the Internet, tourism, migration and the actions of governments promote cultural integration.

You should start by defining “cultural integration” and then go on to discuss the ways in which the various factors listed above influence and promote this form of integration.

Word count: 750

Use the handout on “cultural integration” that you have been given.

You should also use the following internet links to research the essay question:

http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/cultural/index.htm

The above website contains a huge amount of links, all focussed on cultural globalisation or cultural integration.

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/changing.media/Nordicom-2.htm

http://www.users.bigpond.com/l_arom/archives/Cultural%20Globalisation.htm

http://www.editiondesign.com/fgf/knowledge/article007.html

There is also a lot of information to be found in the numerous links in the globalisation section here on this page.

Due next lesson

Have fun!

Mr. Jonsson