Why is David an orphan?
As part of my independent learning drive I returned to the old favourite- the mystery task. This was based around the orphan David in Botswana, the aim was to enable students to consider factors that had influenced birth and death rates, and as a result population structure, within the country.
The resources I used can be downloaded here.
| Presentation evidence | 1mb pptx |
| Mystery Task | 35kb doc |
| Follow-up questions | 128kb docx |
| Support cloze passage | 18kb docx |
We ended the lesson with the legend that is…

February 17th, 2013 at 8:22 pm
Fantastic as ever Tony – thank you so much for making the effort to post your excellent resources for others to use – I will use next year for adjusted Edexcel B course which has a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa
February 17th, 2013 at 10:15 pm
Thanks- it seemed to work well.