Post on 06-Oct-2020
Geography Summer Project - Top Tips and Resources
We will be marking the content of your report but also the structure and presentation
of it.
Consider the most effective ways of presenting your information – tables, graphs,
text, maps. Remember to try and keep up to date as information changes.
If you copy and paste a resource then reference the source; for example the website /
author / date it was published in brackets underneath.
In addition to the links below, please read the articles on the following pages to help
broaden your understanding of the topic. You will also find some of the key words
required and information about diseases for your fact files.
Websites, news articles and talks that you may find useful are below:
History of TB
https://www.ted.com/talks/melvin_sanicas_what_makes_tb_the_world_s_most_infecti
ous_killer
HIV
https://www.ted.com/talks/philip_a_chan_how_close_are_we_to_eradicating_hiv
Ebola
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/science-innovation/2019/04/what-ebola-virus-
and-can-it-be-stopped
COVID-19 (you will also need to research this yourself and keep up to date with the
changing situation)
https://www.geography.org.uk/The-geography-of-coronavirus
https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/south-korea-is-a-success-story-for-
managing-covid1/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52104978
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-coronavirus-trump-geopolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/08/the-coronavirus-
outbreak-shows-us-that-no-one-can-take-on-this-enemy-alone
https://www.ft.com/content/5e933fce-62bb-11ea-b3f3-fe4680ea68b5
If you have trouble opening this article, type ‘globalisation coronavirus’ into google
and it should be the first hit. Look for the title written above. You will then be able to
read it without a subscription.
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2020/03/coronavirus-early-lessons-
global-crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/12/trump-is-making-
america-an-obstacle-in-the-global-fight-against-covid-19
https://www.ted.com/talks/larry_brilliant_a_global_pandemic_calls_for_global_solutio
ns
Geography Review Article from April 2020 (written before current Covid crisis)