Archive for the ‘population’ Category

Why is David an orphan?

Saturday, February 16th, 2013

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.

HIV in Bostwana from TonyCassidy

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…

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World at 7 billion

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

population

Some lesson ideas I wrote for Boardworks a couple of weeks ago, scroll down the page.

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Polish Migration – SU 44-46

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Continuing with the population resources, this time Polish migration.

Introductory PowerPoint, classification task and summary sheet.

If any has a copy of the BBC programme ‘The Poles are coming’, I’d be very grateful.

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World Population- SU 41-43

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Just beginning to write some population resources for the CCEA spec. I tend to write quite ‘traditionally’ as a basis, then develop additional strategies later on…

I’ll be using the great population jelly babies game as an introduction.

Also produced a living graph exercise on World population growth and a simple factors affecting birth and death rates fill in sheet.

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Mobiles in the fight against HIV

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Just thought this was a great population case study. The ring tone would make an interesting starter…

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More people leaving…

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

The B.B.C. reports that a record number of British people have left the United Kingdom since 1991, most popular destination being that of Australia, I wonder why? The report also shows that a large proportion of long-term migrants are also returning home.

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