Population - duration 7/8 weeks

General aim: To get pupils to consider where people live and what factors affect their distribution. To introduce pupils to the important issue of population growth and the causes and effects of migration.

Key Topic Content/Skills

Guidance Notes

Literacy/Numeracy

Introduction

Glossary and title page

Pupils design a title page to illustrate this topic.

Pupils write a glossary of key words to be used in this topic.

Glossary at beginning of topic will familiarise the pupils with the keywords to be used, their meanings and spellings.

Keywords can be displayed around the classroom.

Where people live

Are we evenly spread?

Connections p. 84 Qu. 1 - 4 Summary

Extension work - extra p. 85

Teacher led discussion – are we evenly spread?

Consider classroom, school, local area, town, country.

Brainstorm reasons, list advantages of being close to others.

Map and describe UK population.

Global distribution

What affects where we live?

Connections p. 86

Qu. 1 - 3 Summary

Extension work - Extra p. 89

Thinking skills - activity sheet 5.1

Where do we live?

Connections p. 88 Qu. 1 - 5 Summary

Extension work - activity sheet 5.2

Broaden discussion from last two chapters to world scale.

Compare the world regions using the photographs.

Teacher led discussion on physical reasons for distribution – sort reasons into negative and positive.

Population growth

How does population change?

Connections p. 90 Qu. 1 - 5 Summary

Extension work - Extras p. 91

Draw chart to show population increase – per second/minute/hour/day etc. draw spectacular graph to show recent ‘explosion’.

Explain the causes. Births, deaths – reasons for the variations.

Link birth/death variations to rich/poor world.

Migration

What is migration? Connections p. 92

Qu. 1 - 5 Summary

Use pupils own experiences about movement.

Investigate the reasons. List reasons why pupils may move in the future.

Sort reasons into push and pull factors.

Mexico city as a case study.

Case study - America

Why migrate to America?

Connections p. 94 Qu. 1 – 4 Summary

Extension work – activity sheet 5.4

What are the effects of migration?

Connections p. 96 Qu. 1 – 4 Summary

Extension work – activity sheet 5.5

 

List attractions of the USA.

Star diagram to illustrate.

Compare statistics for Mexico/USA.

Mapwork using sheet 5.4 to show Mexico and south west USA.

Assessment

Revision sheet 5.6

Self assessment sheet and target setting

Assessment based on sheets 5.1a & 5.1b

Use of self-assessment sheets to highlight gaps in the pupils learning and set targets for the next topic.

Assessment sheets 5.1a & 5.1b.

Pupils to record their test scores against the class average.