Thursday & Friday Jan 31st & Feb 1st, Days 17 & 18

USA REGIONS MAP PROJECT

Learning objectives

Students will be able to use the directions to describe the positions of various regions in the United States. Students will be able to identify unique characteristics of that region. Students will be able to construct written descriptions about regions in the United States.

Within your group, assign each student a state within the region. Your task is to make a 5 slides presentation representing your region. Each slide with cover a specific topic, and your job is to create a visual and text based summary of your regions characteristics for each category. In many ways it’s like a travel brochure for your region.

Population

 For Monday 

With the spread of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, dramatic changes began to occur in the populations of industrializing countries. But do the changes that occurred in Western Europe and the United States have relevance for modern countries just entering the industrial age? Students should be able to evaluate and apply models to explain changes in global demographic patterns, and use their assessments to predict future needs.

Objectives:

To understand the classic demographic transition (DT) model

To explain assumptions and limitations of the classic DT model

To construct graphs of contemporary demographic change

To explain contemporary demographic patterns in the context of the classic DT model
To view population growth from a Malthusian perspective
To calculate crude death rates, birth rates, rates of natural increase, and population doubling times
To comprehend the concept of the Demographic Transition

After working through the Demographic Transition Model assignment you should be able to:

• Describe current population trends, in terms of fertility, mortality and population growth.
• Understand the consequences of current population trends for future well being.
• Describe how the population issues facing the world today differ by region.
• Understand the basic concept of the demographic transition.
• Describe some of the differences between historical transitions and contemporary transitions.

Rationale - Students current understanding of the global population growth and its effects on available resources is very limited. This unit will allow students to acquire information to help understand the challenges countries face when it comes to population controls

Evidence - By correctly listing the challenges countries have the different solutions offered to solve those challenges, will allow students to demonstrate evidence that their know the challenges facing their future.

General questions about the population of the world

Make your best guess on the questions in the linked doc below.

Once you have entered your guesses, check the world distribution diagram (I will provide a link to the image) for the accurate numbers. Upon completion of comparing your guesses to the actual numbers, select two categories that surprise you the most, and explain why.

Prediction questions for World Population

Part 2 (for Tuesday/Wednesday...in class)
Intro to Population Unit with Video - 7 Billion and Beyond (teacher only during class)

Once we finish the video, you will be annotating and writing a summary paragraph on the Article below
Should there be restrictions? - Article & Questions
The annotations, questions and summary paragraph are due by Thursday Night (per 1,3,5) Friday Night (per, 2,6)


Part 3 (for Thursday/Friday...evening)
World of 7 Billion Article  read and annotate in the margin (submit into google classroom by the Sunday night).