A fully resourced set of teaching materials for ESS Foundations Unit 1.2 – Systems. A subtopic for the new IB Diploma Environmental Systems and Societies course, first assessment 2026, which is first taught in 2024.
Created by an IB curriculum developer, examiner & workshop facilitator, this HL/SL sub-topic is part of the foundations topic that is the first unit of the ESS course.
This unit contains six hours of lesson material with PowerPoint lessons and worksheets. The materials can be used both in-person and for online learning, added to your Google Classroom, or opened using Google Slides.
Save yourself time, all resources are ready to click and go! All my resources are informed by over 15 years of IB DP ESS teaching and examiner experience, so you can be sure you are getting a quality resource with everything you need to teach the IB ESS content.
Features:
• Lesson 1 – Systems introduction
• Lesson 2 – Types of system
• Lesson 3 – Terrarium (Lab/experiment)
• Lesson 4 – Feedback loops
• Lesson 5 – Modelling systems
• Lesson 6 – Tipping points and resilience of systems
• Worksheets to support learning tasks
• Clear lesson aims to meet the 2024 syllabus strands (HL/SL)
• Key ESS terminology highlighted
• Engaging classroom activities
• Knowledge review questions
• Home learning tasks
• Starter and plenary activities
The resource is completely developed by me as an author with no use of Artificial Intelligence tools.
A fully resourced set of teaching materials for ESS Higher Level Lens HL.c – Environmental Ethics. A HL lens subtopic for the new IB Diploma Environmental Systems and Societies course, first assessment 2026, which is first taught in 2024.
Created by an IB curriculum developer, examiner & workshop facilitator, this HL sub-topic is part of the higher level extension lenses of the ESS course.
This unit contains five lessons with PowerPoint lessons and worksheets and can be used both in-person and for online learning, added to your Google Classroom, or opened using Google Slides.
Save yourself time, all resources are ready to click and go! All my resources are informed by over 15 years of IB DP ESS teaching and examiner experience, so you can be sure you are getting a quality resource with everything you need to teach the IB ESS content.
Features:
• Lesson 1 – Introduction to environmental ethics
• Lesson 2 – The concept of value in environmental ethics (instrumental & intrinsic)
• Lesson 3 – Traditional ethics (virtue, consequential and rights-based)
• Lesson 4 & 5 – Ethical debate – Northern Spotted Owl conservation
• Worksheets to support learning tasks
• Clear lesson aims to meet the 2024 syllabus strands (HL)
• Key ESS terminology highlighted
• Engaging classroom activities
• Knowledge review questions
• Home learning tasks
• Starter and plenary activities
The resource is completely developed by me as an author with no use of Artificial Intelligence tools.
A fully resourced set of teaching materials for ESS Higher Level Lens HL.a – Environmental Law. A HL lens subtopic for the new IB Diploma Environmental Systems and Societies course, first assessment 2026, which is first taught in 2024.
Created by an IB curriculum developer, examiner & workshop facilitator, this HL sub-topic is part of the Higher Level extension lenses of the ESS course.
This unit contains five lessons with PowerPoint lessons and worksheets and can be used both in-person and for online learning, added to your Google Classroom, or opened using Google Slides.
Save yourself time, all resources are ready to click and go! All my resources are informed by over 15 years of IB DP ESS teaching and examiner experience, so you can be sure you are getting a quality resource with everything you need to teach the IB ESS content.
Features:
• Lesson 1 – The role of environmental law
• Lesson 2 – The effectiveness of environmental laws
• Lesson 3 – Environmental laws at local, national, and international level
• Lesson 4 – Environmental laws, application and enforcement
• Lesson 5 – Environmental laws – legal personhood
• Worksheets to support learning tasks
• Clear lesson aims to meet the 2024 syllabus strands (HL)
• Key ESS terminology highlighted
• Engaging classroom activities
• Knowledge review questions
• Home learning tasks
• Starter and plenary activities
The resource is completely developed by me as an author with no use of Artificial Intelligence tools.
A bundle of all teaching materials for ESS Foundations Unit 1 – Foundations. For the new IB Diploma Environmental Systems and Societies course, first assessment 2026, which is first taught in 2024.
Created by an IB curriculum developer, examiner & workshop facilitator, this HL/SL unit is the first unit of the ESS course.
This bundle contains 19 hours of lesson material with PowerPoint lessons and worksheets. The materials can be used both in-person and for online learning, added to your Google Classroom, or opened using Google Slides.
Save yourself time, all resources are ready to click and go! All my resources are informed by over 15 years of IB DP ESS teaching and examiner experience, so you can be sure you are getting a quality resource with everything you need to teach the IB ESS content.
Features:
• IB unit planner for the Foundations Unit
• Paper 1 unit test for the Foundations Unit
• Lesson 1 – Perspectives
• Lesson 2 – Survey and questionnaires (Practical skills)
• Lesson 3 – Environmental value systems
• Lesson 4 – The environmental movement
• Lesson 5 – Systems introduction
• Lesson 6 – Types of system
• Lesson 7 – Terrarium (Lab/experiment)
• Lesson 8 – Feedback loops
• Lesson 9 – Modelling systems
• Lesson 10 – Tipping points and resilience of systems
• Lesson 11 – Sustainability
• Lesson 12 – Sustainable development
• Lesson 13 – Unsustainable development
• Lesson 14 – Environmental Justice
• Lesson 15 – Inequality water, food & energy
• Lesson 16 – Sustainability indicators
• Lesson 17 – Footprint calculators (online lab/data processing)
• Lesson 18 – Sustainable development goals (SDG) and planetary boundaries model
• Lesson 19 – Doughnut economics and circular economy models
• Worksheets to support learning tasks
• Clear lesson aims to meet the 2024 syllabus strands (HL/SL)
• Key ESS terminology highlighted
• Integrated case studies
• Engaging classroom activities
• Knowledge review questions
• Home learning tasks
• Starter and plenary activities
The resource is completely developed by me as an author with no use of Artificial Intelligence tools.
A bundle of all teaching materials for ESS Foundations Unit 4 – Water For the new IB Diploma Environmental Systems and Societies course, first assessment 2026, which is first taught in 2024.
Created by an IB curriculum developer, examiner & workshop facilitator, this Standard Level unit is the forth unit of the ESS course.
This bundle contains 14 hours of lesson material with PowerPoint lessons and worksheets. The materials can be used both in-person and for online learning, added to your Google Classroom, or opened using Google Slides.
Save yourself time, all resources are ready to click and go! All my resources are informed by over 15 years of IB DP ESS teaching and examiner experience, so you can be sure you are getting a quality resource with everything you need to teach the IB ESS content.
Features:
• IB unit planner for the Water Unit
• Lesson 1 – Introduction to water systems (practical activity)
• Lesson 2 – Human impacts on the hydrological cycle
• Lesson 3 – Water security
• Lesson 4 – Water availability and access (presentation task)
• Lesson 5 – Improving water supplies
• Lesson 6 – Water conservation
• Lesson 7 – Aquatic food production
• Lesson 8 – Fisheries – Unsustainable harvesting
• Lesson 9 – Ocean acidification lab (experiment)
• Lesson 10 – Marine Protected Areas (MPA’s) and Aquaculture
• Lesson 11 – Introduction to water pollution
• Lesson 12 – Plastic pollution
• Lesson 13 – Monitoring water quality (experiment)
• Lesson 14 – Eutrophication
• Worksheets to support learning tasks
• Clear lesson aims to meet the 2024 syllabus strands (SL)
• Key ESS terminology highlighted
• Integrated case studies
• Engaging classroom activities
• Knowledge review questions
• Home learning tasks
• Starter and plenary activities
The resource is completely developed by me as an author with no use of Artificial Intelligence tools.
A bundle of all teaching materials for ESS Higher Level Lenses – (Law, Economics & Ethics). For the new IB Diploma Environmental Systems and Societies course, first assessment 2026, which is first taught in 2024.
Created by an IB curriculum developer, examiner & workshop facilitator, these Higher Level lenses can be taught at any time during the ESS course.
This bundle contains 17 hours of lesson material with PowerPoint lessons and worksheets. The materials can be used both in-person and for online learning, added to your Google Classroom, or opened using Google Slides.
Save yourself time, all resources are ready to click and go! All my resources are informed by over 15 years of IB DP ESS teaching and examiner experience, so you can be sure you are getting a quality resource with everything you need to teach the IB ESS content.
Features:
• HL.a Law
• Lesson 1 – The role of environmental law
• Lesson 2 – The effectiveness of environmental laws
• Lesson 3 – Environmental laws at local, national, and international level
• Lesson 4 – Environmental laws, application and enforcement
• Lesson 5 – Environmental laws – legal personhood
•** HL.b Economics**
• Lesson 6 – What is economics and environmental economics
• Lesson 7 – Market Failure
• Lesson 8 – Greenwashing
• Lesson 9 – Governing the commons
• Lesson 10&11 – Ecological economics
• Lesson 12 – Doughnut economics and circular economic models
•** HL.c Ethics**
• Lesson 13 – Introduction to environmental ethics
• Lesson 14 – The concept of value in environmental ethics (instrumental & intrinsic)
• Lesson 15 – Traditional ethics (virtue, consequential and rights-based)
• Lesson 16 & 17 – Ethical debate – Northern Spotted Owl conservation
• Worksheets to support learning tasks
• Clear lesson aims to meet the 2024 syllabus strands (SL)
• Key ESS terminology highlighted
• Integrated case studies
• Engaging classroom activities
• Knowledge review questions
• Home learning tasks
• Starter and plenary activities
The resource is completely developed by me as an author with no use of Artificial Intelligence tools.
A bundle of all teaching materials for ESS Foundations Unit 2 – Ecology For the new IB Diploma Environmental Systems and Societies course, first assessment 2026, which is first taught in 2024.
Created by an IB curriculum developer, examiner & workshop facilitator, this Standard Level unit is the second unit of the ESS course.
This bundle contains 22 hours of lesson material with PowerPoint lessons and worksheets. The materials can be used both in-person and for online learning, added to your Google Classroom, or opened using Google Slides.
Save yourself time, all resources are ready to click and go! All my resources are informed by over 15 years of IB DP ESS teaching and examiner experience, so you can be sure you are getting a quality resource with everything you need to teach the IB ESS content.
Features:
• IB unit planner for the Ecology Unit
• Lesson 1 – Introduction to the biosphere
• Lesson 2 – Biotic and abiotic factors (Practical skills)
• Lesson 3 – Population interactions
• Lesson 4 – Measuring populations (Fieldwork skills)
• Lesson 5 – Capture, mark, release, recapture (Practical skills)
• Lesson 6 – Human impacts on ecosystems
• Lesson 7 – Laws of thermodynamics
• Lesson 8 – Food chains
• Lesson 9 – Food webs
• Lesson 10 – Toxins in ecosystems
• Lesson 11 – Ecological pyramids
• Lesson 12 – Biogeochemical cycles (the carbon cycle)
• Lesson 13 – Human impacts on biogeochemical cycles
• Lesson 14 – Human impacts on the carbon cycle presentation task
• Lesson 15 – The role of agricultural and ocean systems as carbon sinks
• Lesson 16 – Weather and climate
• Lesson 17 – Introduction to the Earth’s biomes presentation task
• Lesson 18 – Atmospheric systems, ocean currents and climate
• Lesson 19 – What is zonation?
• Lesson 20 – Ecological succession (Primary)
• Lesson 21 – Ecological succession (Secondary)
• Lesson 22 – Sand dune systems case study
• Worksheets to support learning tasks
• Clear lesson aims to meet the 2024 syllabus strands (SL)
• Key ESS terminology highlighted
• Integrated case studies
• Engaging classroom activities
• Knowledge review questions
• Home learning tasks
• Starter and plenary activities
The resource is completely developed by me as an author with no use of Artificial Intelligence tools.