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Individuals and Societies
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Free Individuals and Societies study notes for IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Year 1
History: societies, power and change
Historical inquiry: evidence, chronology and causation
Early societies and ancient civilizations
Medieval and early modern societies
Exploration, colonization and empire
Industrialization and technological developments
Warfare and peacekeeping
Rights and social protest
Significant individuals and their impact
Geography: place, space and environment
Map skills and geographic tools
Demographics and human movements
Settlement and urban morphology
Climate, ecosystems and biomes
Natural hazards and disaster management
Resources, energy and resource management
Environmental challenges and climate change
Human-environment interaction
Year 2
Year 3
Economics and business
Needs, wants and scarcity
Economic agents: consumers, producers, governments, banks
Markets: supply, demand and price
Trade, aid and exchange
Economic measurements and trends
Development and inequality
Globalization and the world economy
Year 4
Civics, politics and global relations
Government systems and governance
Political ideologies
International relations and diplomacy
Superpowers, empires and supra-national alliances
Global governance and international organizations
Human rights: origins, instruments and debates
Conflict, peace and security
Migration, refugees and displacement
Year 5
Culture, society and belief
Culture, identity and diversity
Individuals, communities and social roles
Belief systems and world religions
Social justice and equality
Media, technology and society
Sustainable development and the SDGs
Contemporary global issues
Key concepts and global contexts
Change
Global interactions
Systems
Time, place and space
Related concepts: causality, culture, globalization, sustainability
Global contexts for inquiry
Investigating and communicating (Criteria B and C)
Research questions and their relevance
Action plans for an investigation
Research methods: collecting and recording information
Evaluating the process and results of an investigation
Writing for audience and purpose
Structuring a response to a specified format
Documenting sources: citation and reference lists
Thinking critically (Criterion D)
Analysing sources: origin and purpose
Value and limitations of a source
Comparing and contrasting sources
Perspectives, bias and their implications
Interpreting maps, graphs, tables and data
Synthesizing evidence into supported arguments
Extended evaluative writing: to what extent
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