IB History Revision / Resources
Old IB History Syllabus (examinations Summer 2009): scroll down this page.
New IB History Syllabus (examinations Summer 2010): click here.
Worksheets, Simulations and Quizzes for teaching IB History are available here!
We teach Higher Level and Standard Level candidates in one class, over two years. So we choose topics which overlap Paper 2&3 as far as possible.
The topics highlighted in blue link to worksheets, simulations and IB History Revision resources. These will continue to grow over the coming months.
If you have any questions / suggestions, or have an alternative model you would like to share, please contact me using the feedback form.
The IB History Examination
Paper 1 of the IB History examination
...focuses heavily on the use of sources as historical evidence. Students will choose to answer questions in this IB History paper relating to just one of the following three 'Prescribed Subjects'
I have produced a handout:
Paper 2 of the IB History examination
...is essay based. Students are presented with six IB History Topic areas, and in each of these they are presented with four possible essay questions. Students only have to answer two questions in total from this IB History paper, but they cannot be from within the same IB History Topic area. The six IB History Topic areas are as follows:
1. Causes, Practices and Effects of War
[IB History past Questions]
[IB History Study Guide - World War One]
[IB History Study Guide - Spanish Civil War]
2. Nationalist and Independence Movements, Decolonisation and Challenges Facing New States
3. The Rise and Rule of Single-Party States
[IB History past Questions]
[IB History Study Guide - Tsarist / Revolutionary Russia]
[IB History Study Guide - Stalin's USSR]
4. Peace and Co-operation: international organisations and multiparty states
[IB History Study Guide]
[IB History past Questions]
5. The Cold War
[IB History Study Guide]
[IB History past Questions]
6. The State and its Relationship with Religion and with Minorities
Paper 3 of the IB History examination
...(for Higher Level Students only) is again essay based. For this IB History paper, students study one Regional Option, or a period of about a hundred years within a specific region. The region chosen is usually, but by no means always, the one in which the school is located. The available regions are Europe, the Americas, Africa, East Asia and West Asia.
[IB History Paper 3 Past Questions: European Option]
IB History Study Guides
IB History Study Guide: World War One
IB History Study Guide: Tsarist and Revolutionary Russia to 1924
IB History Study Guide: Stalin's Russia to 1953
IB History Study Guide: The Cold War to 1961
IB History Study Guide: The Spanish Civil War 1936-39
IB History Curriculum Grid / Worksheets / Revision / Games
IB History Topics *
(*click each for worksheets, quizzes and other resources!) |
IB History: Paper 1 |
IB History: Paper 2*
(*click each IB History Topic title for past IB History questions!) |
IB History: Paper 3
(*click each IB History Topic title for resources; click here for past paper questions) |
IB History Activities |
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T1: Causes, Practices and Effects of War
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IB History Topic 14:
Causes, Course and Effects of World War One |
Revision Games / Simulations
Interactive Simulation: Life in the Trenches
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IB History Topic 13:
Tsarist Russia to Communist USSR (1894-1929)
IB History Topic 16:
Totalitarian Europe 1922-1953: Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia
IB History Topic 19:
USSR, 1941-1995
(although I only go up to the death of Stalin, 1953)
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Revision Games / Simulations
A Virtual Tour Around Tsarist Russia
Decision-Making Simulation: Russia under Lenin
Head2Head Interview with Josef Stalin!
Soviet Economy Simulator
Worksheets
Tsar Nicholas II / Russian Revolution
Lenin's Russia
Stalin's USSR
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T3: The Rise and Rule of Single-Party States |
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T1: Causes, Practices and Effects of War
T3: The Rise and Rule of Single-Party States |
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T1. The USSR, 1924-41 |
T3: The Rise and Rule of Single-Party States |
IB History - Topic 4:
Europe 1919-45: The League of Nations and the Causes of WW2:
1920s,
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T1: Causes, Practices and Effects of War
T4: Peace and Co-operation: international organisations and multiparty states |
IB History IB History Topic 15:
The interwar years, 1919-29; 1929; 1929-39
IB History Topic 18:
The Second World War, 1939-45: Cause, Course and Consequences |
Decision-Making game: The League in the 1920s
The Wall St. Crash Simulation: Can You Make a Fortune?!
What Caused World War Two? - Interactive Investigation
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IB History - Topic 5:
The Spanish Civil War and the rise of Franco |
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T1: Causes, Practices and Effects of War
T3: The Rise and Rule of Single-Party States |
IB History Topic 17:
Iberian Peninsula in 20th Century |
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IB History - Topic 6:
The Chinese Civil War and the rule of Mao |
T2: China 1946-64 |
T1: Causes, Practices and Effects of War
T3: The Rise and Rule of Single-Party States |
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T3: The Cold War 1960-79 |
T1: Causes, Practices and Effects of War
T5: The Cold War |
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Revision Games / Simulations
Interactive Simulation: The Vietnam War
Worksheets
The Cold War |
The Internal Assessment at IB History level is an individual study which accounts for 20% of final mark for Higher Level students, and 25% for Standard Level students. It is a study of 1500-2000 word essay on a topic of the student's own choice.
