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Read the Geography EE subject guide.
Read the Examiners Reports for Geography Extended Essay - What does it say you need to do and what to to avoid?
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Task 1 - Go through 3 examples of past Extended Essays.
Essay 1: Punggol microclimate
Essay 2: Singapore Dengue and GIS
Essay 3: Singapore Dengue - comparing locations
Essay 4: Cultural Identity in two Irish Cities
What grade would you give each of these.
Write a critique of each of them based upon the criteria.
Task 2 - Read the Geography EE guide - very important
Task 2: Helping you to decide what you want to do - go through this document to help you refine what needs doing.
Fill this in fully and share with your teacher. This must be done now for me to look at and decide whether a Geography EE is best for you.
Task 3: Now look at as many Grade A style essays as you can even if they are from the old syllabus. This will show you a range of acceptable topics/ Research Questions.
Many examples of Extended Essays - in this folder. You must look at the CIS examples and compare the A and C essays
Resource Websites
Resource Websites
InThinking - You should have access to this - look at the EE section
Royal Geographical Society page on Fieldwork
Singapore Specific - GIS and Data sources
Singapore Specific - GIS and Data sources
SMART nation - start here for many links
Onemap - great data visualisations here
GIS4Design blog has links to many on one page
Interesting paper with lots of data relating to Geog in Singapore
Singapore Specific - Interesting articles/ sites/ journal articles
Singapore Specific - Interesting articles/ sites/ journal articles
URA - I like this layer (Urban Redevelopment Authority)
Some Past A Grade Essays
Using GIS in your EE and IA
Using GIS in your EE and IA
This is an essential part of your IA and EE - with the IA you will be making your own maps - and with EE you will make your own and use other peoples information and data.
Example on the right is actually from the lessons on population density, but it shows how maps showing geospatial data can then be used to look for patterns. This is what you are looking for.
This set of examples is from a Grade 7 class in a previous school - They were using shading to determine land use - in this case they use
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