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Hi everyone,
A lot of work today, with the start of our new unit on demographics! We also reviewed the religion test and then went to the Computer Lab. Here's what we did today in class:
A lot of work today, with the start of our new unit on demographics! We also reviewed the religion test and then went to the Computer Lab. 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: "Ordinary People" by John Legend. Selected for today because demographics is the statistical study of people. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 5/9/16:
News Brief – Eric C.
Demographics
Indicators
Computer Lab N210
Demographics
Indicators
Computer Lab N210
Homework: Read the blog! Finish your one column (all four pages) of data for the country on the demographics profile. If you have not turned in your Historical Investigation, please do so immediately. Next news brief: Rebecca.
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News Brief: Eric C. had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: BBC.com - Shock as Austrian Chancellor Faymann quits. We found Austria in the world map packed and noted that we did a news brief story about it. As usual, I asked the class if they were up to anything fun or interesting outside of class - especially with it being Mother's Day weekend.
We also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
The next news brief was assigned to Rebecca.
I also talked about the short answer question on the back of the religion test, and how I used that as another opportunity to show proficiency on Critical Thinking LT 2 (another historical investigation target). If you did poorly on this test, you will have the opportunity to retake it with the final project.
Demographics: Our next unit is on demographics. We started this section of class by watching this video about population, health, and income over time, which I think is an amazing way to visualize all that data:
We also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
The next news brief was assigned to Rebecca.
I also talked about the short answer question on the back of the religion test, and how I used that as another opportunity to show proficiency on Critical Thinking LT 2 (another historical investigation target). If you did poorly on this test, you will have the opportunity to retake it with the final project.
Demographics: Our next unit is on demographics. We started this section of class by watching this video about population, health, and income over time, which I think is an amazing way to visualize all that data:
Demographics really help in determining what a country is like, when it comes to the people inside of it. We will be doing a lot of work with data and statistics in this unit!
Indicators: To further explain the concept of demographics, I went through this PowerPoint and asked students to take quick notes about what demographics are:
Hopefully, you are beginning to get an understanding about how demographics work and why they are useful in determining what is going on with people in a country.
After the presentation, I passed out this assignment, which we did today in the Computer Lab:
Google Drive: Demographics Development Indicators
To get the information needed to complete this (I asked students to just split the columns up for people to work on, like one person taking the United States), students needed to find the statistics for countries on the CIA World Factbook (some of the statistics might be found from other sources, too). Students did not need to do the last column (another country of choice).
Computer Lab N210: The rest of the class was spent working on finding different development statistics on the US, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip in the Computer Lab. Again, please have one full column (all four pages) completed for next class, when I will provide some time to finish (not in the computer lab) before we discuss the data and what it means.
Thanks for your continued hard work! Keep working on getting your grades up, if at all possible! :-)
Homework is done
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