Category: Geography

Click here to access links for Chapter 17: Environment unit package. 

Part 1 – Take the Test

If you’re in my Social Studies 10 class, please take the Gapminder test by clicking here. The Gapminder project, created by the late Hans Rosling, is a non-profit organization created to fight misconceptions about the way we view our world and its global development. Now that we are studying standards of living in Socials, it is important to sort through information and look at the facts! 

 
Once you have taken the test, feel free to check out the other resources available here before we reconvene as a class. 

Part 2 – New Insights on Poverty

In this clip, Hans Rosling shows participants how to use the Dollar Street tool to inform us of how poverty looks around the world. 

 

Now lets use the tool! Click here to access the dollar street site and explore the different households. Of these households, make observations of what makes the poorest poor and the richest rich; think of it as levels 1,2,3,4 of wealth. Record these observations onto the sticky notes provided and stick them to the whiteboard along the scale  at the back of the class. To be discussed in more detail.   

 

Today, we began discussing living standards and the effects of poverty throughout the world and Canada. This chapter consists of another booklet but the formal assessment this time will be a project instead of a test. Please refer to the last page for project details.

Click here for the Chapter 14 booklet

Go to the World Population Clock at http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ to answer the following questions.

1. What is the world’s population now?
   
   
2. Compare the birth’s today versus the deaths today. What inferences can you make?
   
   
3. Refer to the “Top 20 Largest Countries by Population (Live)”. What similarities can you find amongst these countries? Also, are there any surprises?
   
   
4. What is Canada’s population as of today and where does it rank amongst the world countries? What does its yearly and net change tell us about growth compared to other countries?
   
   
5. What do the past, present, and future tell us about how population changed and what will happen in the future? Be sure to explain why. 
6. Give 10 more interesting facts about world populations from this site.

Lost your booklet already?!?! Print off Chapter 13’s workbook by clicking here.