Day 23 & 24 | Populations

Standards:

• Standard 9. The characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on Earth's surface.

Objectives: 

• SWBAT to list the four most populated regions in the world
• SWBAT explain why populations vary across regions using at least three of the following terms: total fertility rates, infant mortality rates, and life expectancy, natural increase rate, crude birth rate, and crude death rate, arithmetic density, physiological density, and agricultural density.

1. Do Now Review & Practice New Terms in Quizlet (20 min) | Make sure you are signed in (and have added the class) so we can see your scores! :)


2. Make a copy of Today's Handout

3. Introduction to Population | Ms. Kelly

3. Readings | Whole Class Introduction to Human Geography

4. Partners | Jigsaw Reading
Populations Ch. 2.1- 2.5 (missing 2.2)
Full Book (includes 2.2; better copy, but you have to scroll through lots of pages)

• As you read with your partner, write down important facts about your topic on your copy of today's handout. After you have become an expert on your own topic, you will share your findings with a group of classmates, and learn about their topics as well.
• Guiding Questions by Seciton

• 2.1 Where is the world’s population distributed?
• As you answer this question, make sure to discuss the four regions where most of the world’s human inhabitants are clustered and the main reasons for the uneven distribution of the world’s human population. 
• 2.2: Where is the world’s population distributed?
• As you answer this question, make sure to compare and contrast the three types of population density and explain why population growth varies among countries? 
• 2.3: Why does population growth vary among countries?
• As you answer this question, make sure to explain the three types of indicators used by geographers to measure population change. 
• 2.4: Why does population growth vary among countries?
• As you answer this question, make sure to explain how changes in total fertility rates, infant mortality rates, and life expectancy affect population structure. Define dependency ratio and describe how a population pyramid can be used to study population structures. 
• 2.5: Why does population growth vary among countries?
• As you answer this question, make sure to explain the stages of demographic transition.

5. Group Work | Show what you know with Prezi!

• Get into groups with other colleagues reading your section, create a Prezi outlining your chapter... use what you wrote in your summary to guide you! Select one person to present and the others will make a slide each.
• Slide 1: Title, Group Members, Period 
• Slide 2: Important Facts + one image 
• name of person who made this slide in lower right corner
• Slide 3: Interesting Details + one image
• name of person who made this slide in lower right corner
• Slide 4: Bullet points explaining your answer to the guiding question + one image
• name of person who made this slide in lower right corner

7. Publish and Present!

• Post the link to your prezi in the comments sections of today's lesson, along with the period, and the first name of each of your group members.
• Example:
• LINK
• PERIOD
• CHAPTER/SECTION + TITLE OF THE SECTION
• NAME
• NAME
• NAME
• NAME
• Audience: Fill in the notes for the chapter section be presented on the bottom half of your worksheet.

8. Exit Slip | Population (Ch. 2.1-2.5)