Welcome to Micro Skills. Micro Skills are lessons that you can study at home that focus on learning a key MYP or Humanities skill, including a self assessment.

Define Place

How are settlements different?


Hamlet to City

How do we categorize types of settlement?


Functions

How does shape define settlement?


Why Settle

How resources create settlement?


Why Cities Change

How and why cities change over time.


Urban Growth

Why do people change where they live?


Why Cities End

What factors stop a City from existing?


Sources

What are primary and secondary sources?


Timelines

How is history recorded over time?


What Are Maps

How do maps define the spaces we live in?


Scale

Why do we need scale and how do we use it?


Map Symbols

Why do maps show symbols and not reality?


Contours

How can height be shown on 2D maps?


Time, Space, Place

How do maps show history, activites and terrain?


Map Bias

Why do we have different maps of the same place?


A Greek Town

Why Greek Cities were built where they were.


Hong Kong

Why did the City of Hong Kong develop?


Great Fire

How did the Great Fire affect London?


Pre 1666

Christianity in London pre-1666.


Post 1666

Christianity in London post 1666.


Mexico City

Did the Conquista affect Mexico City?


Bodie USA

What happens when a places function ends?


Three Kings

Who could claim the crown in 1066?


Hastings

Was Norman victory really inevitable?


Tactics

What do we know about Hastings?


Feudalism

How was medieval society organised?


Symptoms

What is the plague sweeping Britain?


Causes

What are the causes of the Black Death?


Cures

Does religion or science cure disease?


Pre Plague

What was life like in a pre-plague village?


Post Plague

How did the plague affect villages?


Rural Revolt

What drove the peasants to violent revolt?


Peasant Revolt

How did the revolt go from victory to defeat?


Wat

How did the Peasants Revolt actually end?


E-Excavation

Excavate an archaeological site and discover the past!


Study Hastings

Reconstruct the Battle of Hastings battlefield!


Lost Landscapes

Can we reconstruct landscapes using maps?


Hinduism

What is it that Hindus believe?


Hindu Gods

What does the Hindu Pantheon contain?


Judaism

What is it that Jews believe?


Moses

Who was Moses and what did he do?


10 Commandments

What should Jews do to live a good life?


Christianity

What is it that Christians believe?


Jesus Christ

Who was Jesus and what did he do?


Buddhism

What is it that Buddhists believe?


Middle Way

How can Buddhists live a good life?


Islam

What is it that Muslims believe?


Muhammad

Who was Muhammad and what did he do?