Global Population & Me!
To kick off this unit on population, we're going to be taking a look at this amazing site.
Load up the page and then enter your date of birth and country of origin. Follow the instructions on the task sheet below to find out about your potential life expectancy and how that varies around the world. Are you ready to know you potential death date?
Load up the page and then enter your date of birth and country of origin. Follow the instructions on the task sheet below to find out about your potential life expectancy and how that varies around the world. Are you ready to know you potential death date?
Who Is This?
Task 1 - Study the face above. On your worksheet, write down who you think this person is and perhaps write a little bit about him/her.
What nationality?
What age?
Which gender?
How you know this person - because you've all met him/her?
Why is the image so grainy?
What nationality?
What age?
Which gender?
How you know this person - because you've all met him/her?
Why is the image so grainy?
Task 2 - Watch the first video below noting down as many facts as possible on the face worksheet in task 1.
Discuss the issues that are most important to us today. Will life be the same in 100 years from now? What might change?
Task 3 - Now watch the second video below that charts the global population growth. Some of you may have seen this before.
Task 4 - You will be completing a piece of work from geographyalltheway.com.
Click here to be taken to the relevant section of the site.
Complete your answers on the worksheet below.
To find out the population when you were born on the worksheet above, click here!
Task 5 - Google Research Time - What are the causes and effects of rapid population growth.
Complete the worksheet below, following the tasks that are set out.
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How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?
Task 6 - Watch the 45 minute video by clicking on the image above - How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?
Use the work sheet above to complete the activities during the video. The activities are in chronological order.
Print out the sheet and work on it in front of the computer/TV as you watch the documentary.
What Causes Population Growth To Slow
Make a note of the following reasons that can contribute towards population growth.
1. Contraception - People are now able to choose when to have children (family planning)
2. Lower fertility rates - Parents realise that their children will survive past their first birthday due to medical advancements
3. Anti-Natalist policies - The former 'One Child Policy' in China aimed at cutting the fertility rate to below 2
4. Career Women - Now deciding to postpone starting family to focus on forging a career path and earning money
5. Children cost a lot! - It can cost upwards of $200,000 to bring up a child until they turn 18 years old!
What Causes High Births?
To be developed in 2022/23
What Causes High Deaths?
Check out the visual below to get an overview of global pandemics and the impact that they have had on death rates around the world. This helps you put in to context the current COVID-19 situation.
Overpopulation & Underpopulation
Objective: To show an understanding of the factors that lead to the under and over population of two contrasting countries.
Starter: Spend 5 minutes playing with this super 3D mapping visualisation that shows the most densely population parts of planet. Fly over Bangladesh & Australia to contrast both places.
Overpopulation is when there is not enough resources for the inhabitants in an area. Inevitably this leads to famine, water and electricity shortages, increased unemployment.
Class Activity - Brainstorm the issues that may arise because of overpopulation in Bangladesh. Use the worksheet below. |
Under population is when there is more resources than inhabitants in an area. Surplus in food and water results in wastes. Societal systems such as schools and hospitals will then not have enough demand to run at a sustainable level. So the cost per capita for the service will increase.
Class Activity - Brainstorm the issues that may arise because of underpopulation in Australia. Use the worksheet below. |
Optimum population is when there is enough resources for the number of inhabitants (population demand for goods is equal to the supply). The optimum population will also be influenced by developments in technology, demographic structure changes, as trade opportunities develop/falter, and as new raw materials are discovered to replace old ones which are exhausted or whose values change over time
Task 1 - Using the theory above (taken from Cool Geography and Revise Geography Weebly), work in pairs to create two separate infographics with Piktochart, Powerpoint or Canva to show the causes and effects of both overpopulation on Bangladesh and under population on Australia.
Exam Corner:
Using an example place, explain how the relationship between population and resources can cause overpopulation/underpopulation.
You should use examples were possible [7 Marks ]
Future Population Growth & Africa
Homework Task - Download and listen to the BBC Podcast above (25 minutes) or here
There are four parts to the podcast. Using the summary sheet below, summarise the message in each part into no more than 50 words (so, that is 200 words in total).
A Country with High Population Growth
Develop new cases study here 2022/23
A Country with Low Population Growth
Objective: To find out how government policies caused low population growth in China.
Starter - Why do governments want to control the birth rate and how do they communicate this to their people?
i. You have five minutes to create your own slogan and poster to encourage (pro natalist) or discourage (anti natalist) the fertility rate of a population. BE CAREFUL!
Click here to be taken to a website that has some of the most famous policies and how they were 'advertised'.
i. Choose three posters and copy them into this worksheet
ii. Annotate around each poster the message and how the government is trying to persuade their people to conform. Don't forget to explain what they are suggesting.
1 CHILD POLICY (1979 - 2016) - China
An anti-natalist policy is concerned with limiting population growth by encouraging the population to have less children. The most famous example of this is in China and a policy called 'The One Child Policy'. Make a note of this.
Starter - Why do governments want to control the birth rate and how do they communicate this to their people?
i. You have five minutes to create your own slogan and poster to encourage (pro natalist) or discourage (anti natalist) the fertility rate of a population. BE CAREFUL!
Click here to be taken to a website that has some of the most famous policies and how they were 'advertised'.
i. Choose three posters and copy them into this worksheet
ii. Annotate around each poster the message and how the government is trying to persuade their people to conform. Don't forget to explain what they are suggesting.
1 CHILD POLICY (1979 - 2016) - China
An anti-natalist policy is concerned with limiting population growth by encouraging the population to have less children. The most famous example of this is in China and a policy called 'The One Child Policy'. Make a note of this.
Task 1 - Create a revision poster that shows the main features of the OCP in China (1979 - 2016) and why the country switched to two or more children in 2022.
To do this, you will need a copy of Geofile issue 717 from Oxford University Press.
Use the framework & planning sheet (above) to help you with your research and final content of the revision poster.
Check out this example from previous IST student, Amelie.
- WHAT was the One Child Policy?
- WHERE was the One Child Policy used? This section should include a map and a location description
- WHEN was the policy introduced? This section should be sequenced in chronological order
- WHY was the policy introduced? Here you should explain why the Chinese authorities introduce the policy.
- WHO was affected by the policy?
- HOW was the policy implemented? In this section you should describe and explain the methods that were used by the authorities to ensure people follow the policy.
- SUCCESSES and FAILURES of the One Child Policy. (the videos to the right will help you here).
- Make reference to:
- The 4-2-1 problem
- What is the Little Emperor Syndrome
- What is the 'Spare Branches' problem
Review: Population Key Words & Definitions
Objective: To recognise and define six key population terms and to be able to use the CIA World Fact Book to search for up to date and reliable data.
