This lesson is an Introduction to population. Includes videos, discussions and activities all focusing on the current population and problems this could bring to the people and the planet.
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Key words: Use text book or allow students to research key words.
Population handout: This is used to create a graph plotting the worlds population from the year 1800. Works best with graph paper.
This lesson teaches students about population pyramids. Students are required to produce their own population pyramid for Ethiopia and be able to identify key features of both LEDC and MEDC country's population pyramids.
Recourse:
Key information: Highlights the main parts and features of population pyramids.
Population information: This is used to create a population pyramid for an LEDC country.
This lesson teaches students about the 8 different Millennium Development Goals.
Students are required to draw each goal, find the correct title for each goal, describe what they think each goal is trying to achieve and use the information to see how successful each goal has been.
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Millennium Development Goals Pictures: Can stick rather than draw goals.
Millennium Development Goals Information: Each student is randomly given a goal. From this, they have to work out which picture it applies to, what it is about and how success the goal has been.
This lesson looks at what can is considered to be effective AID. It asks the students to think about the idea that AID is not always best for the recipient country.
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Different types of AID - This gets students to read through the key words on the board and match up to what they think is the correct definition.
Evaluation Information Hand-out - Students need to read through the three different case studies about different types of AID around the world. They then use the 'Evaluation Hand-out&' to answer the questions about each project.
This is an introduction lesson to the idea of Fracking.
The lesson starts with a brainstorm of what the word/process could mean. This is followed by highlighting the need for a new source of energy supply within the UK - Energy Handout.
A video/teachers explanation/questions and card sort, then talk through the process of Fracking.
This is a lesson and resource that can be used when teaching developmental indicators. The main part of the lesson is built around playing a game of developmental top trumps. This is followed up by a series of questions based around measuring development.
Top Trumps: A set of 30 countries using information taken from the CIA world fact book. Works best when printed in colour and laminated