External Evaluation of the European Baccalaureate (Annexes)

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Comparison between LC Higher level and the EB
The Syllabus
Module1. Geographical methods/ skills
LC; Skills taught as units AND integrated into Core Units, Electives, Options and the GI.
Skills are listed at the start of each unit and are central to the student’s experience of LC
Geography.
Map interpretation, figure interpretation, photograph analysis, statistical analysis, figure
drawing, information technology applications. Planning, data collection, report planning, and
analysis and presentation of results and conclusions are required for the GI. This GI is
compulsory and is marked out of 100m, which is 20% of the total.
Module 2 Development studies
Students choose between the Economic Elective 4 and the Human Elective 5.
Students also choose between 4 Options, which are Option 6, Option 7, Option 8 and Option
9.
Development studies are found in Elective unit 4, looking at uneven patterns in the distribution
of economic activities, levels of economic development, the process of change in
development, issues arising from the development of a single interdependent global
economy.
Development studies are also found in Option 6 where evaluating the differing views of
development and underdevelopment, assessing the impact of current economic patterns on
developing economies, sustainable development and differing views of development are
studied.
Theme 1: The natural environment of Europe.
In Core unit 1, which must be studied, Plate tectonics, how crystal structures are created,
modified, and destroyed, rock formation, the development of landforms and the interaction of
the tectonic cycle, rock cycle and surface forces, the balance between endogenic and
exogenic forces, the impact of human activity on physical processes at work on the landscape
are studied in relation to local, national and international examples
From the list; Mass Movement, Fluvial processes, coastal processes and glacial processes,
all must be studied but ONE must be studied in detail.
Students must also study ONE of the following; how human activities can impact on either
mass movement, or river processes or coastal processes.
Climate and vegetation are not studied in Core 1, but are dealt with in Option 7, Geoecology,
where ONE major biome is studied. Also in Core 2, Regional, in relation to the concept of a
region.
Theme 2 Europeans
Core unit 2 is Regional geography. Students study two contrasting regions in Ireland e.g.
Dublin region and the BMW and two contrasting regions in Europe e.g. Mezzogiorno and
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