Week of Nov. 18-22

Learning Goal:
To understand how population affects human populations.
To understand how a catastrophic weather/environmental event affects the developing world.
To understand global migration patterns.

11/18/13
Learning Activities:
Review Population research reports
Population Geography MC Test
Homework:  Visit my web page link entitled "Population Video Project".  Go to "Student Video" and decide if you want to participate in this project.  It can be used as extra credit or as a substitute for another project.

11/19/13
Learning Activities:
Obtain feedback on population project
Review essay test responses
Homework:  Watch a news report on Typhoon Haiyan.  Relate event to a Human Geography topic.  Explain in a paragraph to share with class.
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11/20/13
Learning Activities:
Finish reviewing responses; provides models of excellent papers.
Review physiologic density and Malthus geometric growth
Homework:  Complete any missing assignments.

11/21/13
Review physiologic density 
Share Typhoon Haiyan connections
Promethean Board on Typhoon Haiyan
Homework:  Review Barron's Migration section; look in Rubenstein and choose one migration visual.  On a sheet of paper identify the page number and graphic you are describing.  Then in a detailed paragraph with a clear topic sentence, write at least 5 details you can glean from the visual.

11/22/13
Learning Activities:
Share homework samples.
Introduce students to Pearson's migration video.
     Discussion questions
     Applicable vocabulary
Begin viewing film.
Homework: In Rubenstein, read the following:  "Environmental Push and Pull Factors" (82); "Distance of Migration" (84-85).  Make sure you know Ravenstein's theory.