Demographics, Day 2 - Class Recap

This past Sunday was Mother's Day! Here I am with my sister and brother with my mom in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, over Winter Break 2014!

Dear class,

There was a fair amount of reviewing data and reading today - thanks for following along. Here's what we did today in class:

Learning Targets: 
Knowledge LT 10: I can explain demographic changes in the world and their effects.
Critical Thinking LT 2: I can explain connections between events, issues, problems and concepts.

Soundtrack: "Rockin' In The Free World" by Neil Young. Selected for today because of our continued look at demographics in different areas around the world. Lyrics here.

AGENDA 5/11/15:

News Brief – Alyssa
Trends
The End of Poverty
World In The Balance I

Homework: Read the blog! If you have not turned in your Historical Investigation, please do so immediately - I would especially just like to see Part A/the research question paragraph if you have not turned it in. The last day to turn anything related to the Historical Investigation in is this Friday, May 15. Next news brief: Skylar.

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News Brief: Alyssa had the news brief today and but needed a bit of extra time so I selected this to talk about: I showed this election result from the United Kingdom, where my Uncle Peter won re-election to his local council! Then, Alyssa talked about this article: CNN.com - 2 babies die, dozens hospitalized after vaccination in southern Mexico. A very sad story! On balance, vaccinations are incredibly important, though!

We also watched VICE News for the day, before moving on.

The next news brief was assigned to Skylar.

Trends: The first section today was reviewing some of the information that we found last class in the Computer Lab, on this assignment:

Google Drive: Demographics Development Indicators

Students needed to find the statistics for countries on the CIA World Factbook (some of the statistics might be found from other sources, too). Today in class, we reviewed the statistics and found some trends about what life might be like in the countries we researched. Basically: life in the Palestinian Territories of Israel is not as good as our lives in the United States, or the larger country of Israel. We will come back to this later in the year!

The End of Poverty: This was based on learning more about what life is like in different countries. I asked the class to split up based on how fast students thought they were at reading, and assigned this paper and reading to a group of four:

Google Drive - The End of Poverty Assignment

Here is the reading that goes along with the assignment:

Google Drive - The End of Poverty Reading

We spent a good time in class going through this in groups, and then going over it afterwards. Hold on to these completed assignments, please! 

Thanks for your focus and work today in class! :-)