Lesson 5 – How can we slow down population growth Learning Area Social Sciences Social Studies Population Achievement Objective(s) Understand how formal and informal groups make decisions that impact on communities. Understand how people participate individually and collectively in response to community challenges Understand how people’s management of resources impacts on environmental and social sustainability. Understand how the ideas and actions of people in the past have had a significant impact on people’s lives. Understand how people define and seek human rights. Level 4/5 Year Group 9/10 Overview In this lesson, students will be introduced to the factors that control population numbers and population growth. These can be both natural and cultural. They will learn that the distribution of the global population is not even. Countries have different birth rates depending on their economic, political and social cultures and motivations. They will learn that some countries throughout the 20 th & 21 st Century have tried to control their population growth with policies. These have been varied in their approach and success. Learning Outcomes Learn what natural and cultural factors can affect a country’s birth rate. Categorise countries with high & low birth rates. Explain why those countries have high & low birth rates. Consider why a country decides to control its population growth rate. Copyright This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Disclaimer Every effort has been made by Lincoln University to ensure that the content in this publication doesn’t breach copyright, and on that basis, Lincoln University accepts no responsibility should there by any breach of copyrght.
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Lesson 5 – How can we slow down population growth
Learning Area Social Sciences Social Studies Population
Achievement Objective(s)
Understand how formal and informal groups make decisions that impact on communities.
Understand how people participate individually and collectively in response to community challenges
Understand how people’s management of resources impacts on environmental and social sustainability.
Understand how the ideas and actions of people in the past have had a significant impact on people’s lives.
Understand how people define and seek human rights.
Level 4/5 Year Group 9/10
Overview
In this lesson, students will be introduced to the factors that control population numbers and population growth. These can be both natural and cultural. They will learn that the distribution of the global population is not even. Countries have different birth rates depending on their economic, political and social cultures and motivations. They will learn that some countries throughout the 20th & 21st Century have tried to control their population growth with policies. These have been varied in their approach and success.
Learning Outcomes
Learn what natural and cultural factors can affect a country’s birth rate.
Categorise countries with high & low birth rates.
Explain why those countries have high & low birth rates.
Consider why a country decides to control its population growth rate.
Copyright This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.
Disclaimer Every effort has been made by Lincoln University to ensure that the content in this publication doesn’t breach copyright, and on that basis, Lincoln University accepts no responsibility should there by any breach of copyrght.
Note to teacher - before the start of the next lesson
In preparation for the debate, you should split the class into equal groups to debate the following statement.
The whole world should adopt a ‘one-child policy’.
Split the class into 8 equal groups to represent the following perspectives on this issue.
Religious Political Economic Social Environmental
Healthcare (GPs) Developed Country Developing Country
Types of patterns in Geography
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