Complete, ready-to-use curriculum package covering the entire Option E: Leisure, Sport and Tourism for IB Geography SL & HL. Everything you need to deliver this optional theme across four weeks.

What’s Included:
4 comprehensive unit planners (6 hours each):

E1 Changing Leisure Patterns — Defining and distinguishing leisure, recreation, sport and tourism; factors affecting participation; changing patterns over time and across global contexts

E2 Tourism Trends and Impacts — Global tourism growth drivers (transport, income, technology); mass vs niche tourism; economic impacts (multiplier effect, leakage, employment); social and cultural impacts (heritage preservation, cultural commodification, host-guest interaction)

E3 Tourism, Recreation and the Physical Environment — Direct environmental impacts; resource use (water, energy, land); carrying capacity (ecological, infrastructure, social); ecotourism principles, potential and greenwashing

E4 Sustainable Tourism Management — Stakeholders (government, industry, local community, tourists, NGOs) and conflicting interests; management strategies; reconciling economic, social and environmental sustainability goals

Every Unit Planner Includes:

• Content mapping to IB guide statements
• DP assessment links (Paper 2 Option, Section A/B/C)
• 4 transfer goals and linking questions per unit
• 3-6 hands-on activities per unit (classification tasks, data interpretation, case studies, simulations)
• Formative assessments with exit tickets
• Summative test designs (MCQ, short answer, extended response)
• Worked examples with model answers
• Differentiation (scaffolding, extension tasks, culturally responsive examples)
• TOK connections (classification by context, verifying claims, trade-offs)
• CAS activity ideas (accessible recreation, tourism sustainability)
• ATL skills mapped (thinking, social, communication, self-management, research)
• Free online resources: UNWTO, WTTC, GSTC, OECD time-use data

Fieldwork Opportunities:
Leisure-participation surveys (comparing age groups or neighbourhoods)
Visitor-spending surveys (estimating local economic leakage)
Resident-perception surveys (social/cultural impacts of tourism)
Trail-condition or vegetation-trampling surveys
Water/energy-use audits comparing tourism and residential consumption
Stakeholder-perception surveys on tourism management priorities

Perfect For:

• New teachers needing a complete Option E curriculum
• Experienced teachers seeking fresh activities
• Combined SL/HL classrooms needing clear differentiation
• Departments planning the full optional theme sequence

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