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)