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The pathway along a Shinto shrine in Toyko, Japan. Today, we learned about the demographic pressures on Japan's population - especially when it comes to a very elderly population. Photo taken in 2014.
Hi everyone,
It is always nice to see you all in the morning! Today, we went over the End of Poverty assignment again, and also watched a documentary about population and demographics. Here's what we did today in class:
It is always nice to see you all in the morning! Today, we went over the End of Poverty assignment again, and also watched a documentary about population and demographics. 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.
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: "Money" by Pink Floyd. Selected for today because of the relationship of economic/money growth to ending poverty and improving quality of life.
AGENDA 5/13/15:
News Brief – Skylar
Finish The End of Poverty
World in the Balance I
Work Time
Finish The End of Poverty
World in the Balance I
Work Time
Homework: Read the blog! Finish your demographic unit work (see below for links). 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. Next news brief: Ben.
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News Brief: Skylar had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: CNN.com - Amid fears of ethnic violence, coup attempt reported in Burundi. I talked about what a "coup" is, going back to the government unit last semester. We also talked about the Amtrak train derailment and the latest earthquake in Nepal.
We also watched VICE News for the day, before moving on.
The next news brief was assigned to Ben.
Finish The End of Poverty: I wanted to go back through as a class with this assignment - especially the back side. Here's the assignment
If you did not finish this today in class, please do so as homework.
World in the Balance I: This was a NOVA documentary that we watched together in class (up until close to the end). I was asking students to write about the three countries in the film: India, Japan, and Kenya, and what their population/demographics is like. Here is the assignment that goes with this:
Thank you for your focus and interest in this! As I said before watching it, I think the issues are really interesting and worth our time to learn about.
Work Time: We did not have much time at the end of class today, but I did want to link to the last assignment (of the three so far) in the demographics unit, which is this chart for statistics:
We also watched VICE News for the day, before moving on.
The next news brief was assigned to Ben.
Finish The End of Poverty: I wanted to go back through as a class with this assignment - especially the back side. Here's the assignment
Here is the reading that goes along with the assignment:
If you did not finish this today in class, please do so as homework.
World in the Balance I: This was a NOVA documentary that we watched together in class (up until close to the end). I was asking students to write about the three countries in the film: India, Japan, and Kenya, and what their population/demographics is like. Here is the assignment that goes with this:
And here is the video we watched in class:
Work Time: We did not have much time at the end of class today, but I did want to link to the last assignment (of the three so far) in the demographics unit, which is this chart for statistics:
Google Drive: Demographics Development Indicators
Please have all of your demographics work ready for next class! Thank you!
Students needed to find the statistics for countries on the CIA World Factbook (some of the statistics might be found from other sources, too).
Please have all of your demographics work ready for next class! Thank you!
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