Check you have something in your notes for the areas we've looked at; fill in missing gaps.
Other activities:
Ask questions and carry on reading. There's a ton of material out here thanks to the news that the world population is hitting 7 billion.
Try this migration quiz or this quiz on population distribution. (If your computer does not show either quiz, please tell me; we can find a computer that works for you.)
Here's a useful guide - Population Change Review - which quickly packs some of the ideas about population that we've talked about into a slideshow. You can control what you want to look at. Choose any one screen and we can talk some more.
Let's make a date for the waffles.
*Terms and conditions apply. Thanks, Shark!
Monday 31 October 2011
Monday 24 October 2011
Population: what affects who lives where?
Quick video on population density here!
Look about the town where we live. Where is most densely populated? Where are the areas where fewer people live? What's the difference between these places?
Read this page. Read, in particular the section Factors affecting population density. The table breaks down these factors into physical and human.
Draw a map to show all the factors you can identify from this extract, plus anything else you can think of that might affect where people move and live.
Add captions as you go. For example, you might draw a city and label the city with information, such as 'high density population results from stable government, trade, jobs, health services, good transport'. A desert area on your map might be labelled 'extremes of physical landscape or extremes of temperature result in low density population'. Yes, they would look pretty good!
Try this game. I have no idea what it's like!
Visit this article. Let's talk about the population age/sex pyramid in the UK and the costs/benefits of migrancy.
Look about the town where we live. Where is most densely populated? Where are the areas where fewer people live? What's the difference between these places?
Read this page. Read, in particular the section Factors affecting population density. The table breaks down these factors into physical and human.
Draw a map to show all the factors you can identify from this extract, plus anything else you can think of that might affect where people move and live.
Add captions as you go. For example, you might draw a city and label the city with information, such as 'high density population results from stable government, trade, jobs, health services, good transport'. A desert area on your map might be labelled 'extremes of physical landscape or extremes of temperature result in low density population'. Yes, they would look pretty good!
Try this game. I have no idea what it's like!
Visit this article. Let's talk about the population age/sex pyramid in the UK and the costs/benefits of migrancy.
Thursday 20 October 2011
Population: what's an age/sex pyramid?
Easy. A graph that looks like a pyramid. Or sometimes not.
Watch this video.
It shows you about population pyramids for an MEDC and an LEDC.
An MEDC is a More Economically Developed Country and an LEDC is a Less Economically Developed Country.
This second video has a useful still of three 'pyramid' shapes side by side.
You could draw out an age/sex pyrmaid for many circumstances. Have a go at drawing out such a pyramid to represent the local home ed group, or better still, your clan of unicorns.
Watch this video.
It shows you about population pyramids for an MEDC and an LEDC.
An MEDC is a More Economically Developed Country and an LEDC is a Less Economically Developed Country.
This second video has a useful still of three 'pyramid' shapes side by side.
You could draw out an age/sex pyrmaid for many circumstances. Have a go at drawing out such a pyramid to represent the local home ed group, or better still, your clan of unicorns.
Friday 14 October 2011
Population: can you describe the consequences of different patterns of population growth?
Walk about town. Do you see lots of children? Young women? Young men? Lots of middle-aged people? Elderly people? Who are the construction workers? Who are the nannies and childminders? Who seems to be wearing suits?
This week I'll read extracts from a government report about Hong Kong's populations. Where are you going? Come back! It's interesting! Honestly! And I have chocolate!
What would happen in the town where you live if there was a great growth of any one of those groups of people you saw? Or a great decline? What would happen if all the Filipinas left town?!
Make sure you get hold of daddy at some point and ask him about Demographic patterns. He's good at that stuff and can do the maths.
This week I'll read extracts from a government report about Hong Kong's populations. Where are you going? Come back! It's interesting! Honestly! And I have chocolate!
What would happen in the town where you live if there was a great growth of any one of those groups of people you saw? Or a great decline? What would happen if all the Filipinas left town?!
Make sure you get hold of daddy at some point and ask him about Demographic patterns. He's good at that stuff and can do the maths.
Monday 3 October 2011
Population: Case study Hong Kong
Visit the Sha Tin Museum for the New Territories gallery.
Pay attention particularly to the last section about the development of the new towns. Make sure you play the game about building a city from scratch.
Take note as you visit any museum if they have references to population growth and migration.
There is an imaginary city game here. (It's a little less practical than having to consider what medical infrastructure you will need for the elderly.)
Pay attention particularly to the last section about the development of the new towns. Make sure you play the game about building a city from scratch.
Take note as you visit any museum if they have references to population growth and migration.
There is an imaginary city game here. (It's a little less practical than having to consider what medical infrastructure you will need for the elderly.)
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