Populations in Transition
1. Intro to Populations in Transition
--- World Population Counter and Stats "Tracking our population explosion and the effects it has on our world" 1a) Patterns of Population Growth: 'Describe' with a partner --- The World at 7 Billion --- World Population Density "The U.N. projects world population to reach 8 billion by 2024" 1b) Worksheet: Populations in Transition Vocabulary Using the World Bank website to record the statistics we will be working with in this unit. Calculate population growth/doubling time. 1c) Videos 1 and 2 below help illuminate the TRENDS and PATTERNS! |
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2. Fertility Rates, Death Rates, Infant Mortality Rates, Life Expectancy
2a) Population Trends Overview PPT 2b) Gapminder website: 1. Choose three different indicators from the list to the right 2. Use the book pg 2-9 and/or the gapminder website to describe the regional trends for each of the three indicators. Between 5-6 sentences for each indicator. 2c) Watch the videos below. Summarize Rosling's argument concerning the way trends in population growth are have changed and are changing... 2d) Additional Resources: Population Jelly Babies Game courtesy geographyalltheway.com Printable Population Graph Sheets (geographyalltheway) |
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3. Spearman's Rank and Population Data: Establishing Correlation
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient (Rs) is a reliable and fairly simple method of testing both the strength and direction (positive or negative) of any correlation between two variables. 3a) Testing Significance Using Population Indicators PPT 3b) Student Sheet (Spearman's Rank and Population Data) 3c) Spearman's Rank Significance Tables also p242 3d) Inset: Degrees of Freedom - Spearman's Rank Significance Graph 3e) World Bank Data (for other indicators!) 3f) Very handy and thorough overview of Spearman's Rank |
4. The Demographic Transition Model
4a) PPT Overview of the DTM The Demographic transition Model refers to the transition from high birth and death rates to lower birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system. 4b) DTM Overview Student Sheet |
Can you identify the five different countries current stage of development??
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5. Population Pyramids
5a) Link: Population Pyramids from US Census Bureau International Database of Population Statistics - look at the pyramids below! Can you tell at which stage in the Demographic Transition Model each country might be? What are the advantages of a youthful population structure? What are the consequences of an older dependency ratio? 5b) Student Sheet: Population Pyramids 5c) Student Sheet: Advanced Population Pyramids |
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6. Youthful vs. Aging Populations:
Issues and Challenges VOCABULARY: Dependency Ratio Youthful Population Ageing Population Population Momentum 6a) Dependency Ratios & Impacts PPT 6b) Case Study Readings: Europe's Birth Rates 'The Perfect Demographic Storm' Refugee Influx Helps German Population How Will A Population Boom Change Africa? Japan's Population To Shrink By a Third The Effects of a Very Young Population on Uganda 6c) Case Study Videos Ageing Populations: Japan & Germany Youthful Populations: Uganda |
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7. Pro-Natal vs. Anti-Natal Policies: How can countries attempt to increase (pro) or decrease (anti) population? What specific measures have been taken? Have these policies been successes or failures? With what criteria can we use to evaluate their outcome? 7a) Reading: Pro-Natal Policies
France's Baby Boom Secret Italy's "Fertility Day" Arouses Anger Denmark's Bizarre Series of Sex Campaigns Leads to Baby Boom 7b) Reading: Anti- Natal Policies
China Begins Lifting the One Child Policy How to Diffuse Sub-Saharan Africa's Population Bomb India's Population Policies Beset By Problems 7c) Pro- vs. Anti-Natal Policies PPT Overview Brief introduction to pro- vs. anti-natal population policies 7d) Student Worksheet Case Studies China's One Child Policy & France's New Baby Boom 7e) Diamond Nine Ranking Template Do government population policies work? Have we seen success? Rank the most important evidence we have today. |
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8. Migration Introduction, Types and Models
8a) Introduction to Migration - Migration Overview PPT 8b) Student Notes Worksheet (for above PPT) 8c) People Moving - Migration Information What is Germany's migration overview? Look at the above link. Create a summary in your notes of Germany's migration 'picture.' Include: - Which countries it receives migrants from - Ranking in 'migrant corridors' - Percentage of emigrants and top destinations |
9. Migration Models: Lee's Model & Ravenstein's Laws
9a) Migration Models PPT Need to know both Lee's Model & Ravenstein's Laws please! 9b) Migration Models Student Worksheet Complete while we go over the models in class! 9c) Articles Highlight the Steps in Lee's Migration Model: The Calais Jungle (Syria or Afghanistan to UK) The Harrowing Journey (Syria to Sweden) (also linked in the student worksheet above) |
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10. Migration: Refugees
10a) Brief Notes: Refugees Powerpoint Refugees: a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. 10b) Student Worksheet on Refugees 10c) Refugees Review: Impacts on Home/Host Country Activity 10d) European Migrant Crisis Explained in 7 Maps 10d) Articles and BBC News Report: Desperate Journeys (right) (for further information regarding the EU refugee crisis in 2015-6) Are More People on the Move than Ever Before? EU migration: Crisis in Graphics Migrants Stranded As Hungary Bars them from Railway Station From Turkey to Sweden: Syrian Migrant's Perilous Journey |
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11. The Girl Effect: Gender & Changing Populations
"We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back." Malala Yousafzei 11a) The Girl Effect 'Mix and Match' or Gender Inequality Guessing 11b) Real World Gender Inequality - How Skewed? (PPT) 11c) Using the website below, choose the most important three examples of gender inequality and summarize them in your notes. Explain, using a specific located example, why this aspect of gender discrimination presents the largest problem for development. The Most Extreme Examples of Gender Inequality 11d) Student Worksheet on Gender Inequality |