RATIONALE: Students need to own their opinions and be able to clearly articulate their reasons to classmates.
EVIDENCE: By identifying and summarizing the key factors of their statements students will show evidence of their understanding of population issues.
Activity:
- students will be placed into groups of 4 each with their statement summary on their chromebook.
- each student will read their statement to the other students in their group. Once each student has read their statement the group will decide on the "best" argument related to the stand the student took either agreeing or disagreeing with the statement.
-the "winner" at the table will have their statement shown to the class through the LCD projector and will read their statement to the class. The class as a whole will decide which statement is the best. The winning table will receive 5 extra credit points.
-all students will share their statements will me by the end of the activity.
Second half of Block - continuing into Thursday/Friday
OBJECTIVE: Given a chromebook with access to the internet, annotate and analyze a introductory article on population to pull out the key data points through a summary statement explanation to its value.
RATIONALE: Students need to understand the key components to the reasons population has grown exponentially and the consequences and or challenges of that growth
EVIDENCE: By identifying and summarizing the key factors of population growth students will gain a better understanding of the challenges and possible solutions to that growth.
Resources:
Population Growth Article -Article -
Article Form -Article Form - Due 2nd Block day this week
Part 2:
Demographic Transition Model presentation -( DTM ppt )
Video on Demographic Transition
Video 1 - ( How did we get so big so fast? )
Video 2 - ( Demographic Transition Model )
Video 3 - ( Pyramids )
Malthus vs Boserup article - Article
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