Week of Oct. 28-Nov. 1

Learning Goals:

• To understand the implications of population
• To understand population distribution
• To understand how to interpret the demographic transition model, population pyramids, and Thomas Malthus' Theory

10/28/13
Learning Activities:
Ch. 1-3 Test
"Staying Alive" quiz
Barron's Linear Growth vs. Exponential Growth (around p. 116)
Population Pyramids
Model how to interpret PPs from Promethean Board 
Bring Rubenstein tomorrow
Homework:  Research your cultural hearth's population age-sex distribution and construct or print out its population pyramid.  Draw 3 conclusions and in one or two sentences compare to another country.

10/29/13
Learning Activities: 
Discuss with LP your Population Pyramid
P. 61 activities in Rubenstein.  Finish for homework.
Homework:  Review DT model in Barron's and draw 5 conclusion from the graph around p. 128 in Barron's.

10/30/13
Learning Activities: 
Promethean Board model of how to interpret Demographic Transition Model
Promethean Board vocabulary exercises
Review population vocab. Quiz Friday on all population vocab.

10/31/13
Learning Activities:
Review homework specifics. 
Board game on vocabulary
No Homework--Happy Halloween!

11/1/13
Learning Activities:  
DTM review and quiz

View two videos entitled "China Facing One Child Policy Dilemma" and "China Seeks Ways to Manage Aging Population" from:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19677676
Homework:  Study vocab. for Monday's vocab. quiz