Human Environments: Development Development indicators.

Title: Development indicators Date: 06/06/2016

Aims of this unit: To find out what we mean by development. To find out how we measure development. To explore the value of different development indicators.

Lesson starter: During S2 you all studied the Global Poverty unit. Some of the things that you studied during that time will help you during the Development unit. Talk with the people beside you and then answer the following questions in your jotter. What do we mean by development? What makes a country developed? How do we measure development? How is development divided on a global scale?

Lesson starter: What do we mean by development?

Lesson starter: What makes a country developed?

Lesson starter: How do we measure development?

Lesson starter: How is development divided on a global scale?

The rich North The poor south

Task 1: How do we measure development? You will be put into groups of 4. Collect a piece of poster paper and a pen. Write Development Indicators at the top of the page. Talk with each other and try to think of as many development indicators as you can. Write them down on the poster paper.

GDPBirth rate Number of newpapers sold per day. Calories consumed per day Percentage of people working in agriculture Death rate Adult literacy rate Number of cars per family Number of people per rooms in house. Infant mortality rate Amount of debt a country has. Crime rate People per hospital Number of computers per family Obesity rate

Task 2: How do we categorise indicators? Now we must put the indicators into categories. Can anyone remember what they are?

Development indicators Development indicators can be split into 3 different categories: Economic Indicators Health Indicators Social indicators What do you think each of these mean?

Economic Indicators These indicators are to do with money and the economy.

Health Indicators These indicators are to do with health and health care.

Social indicators These are to do with the people of the country. Employment, education, housing all come under this banner.

Task 2: You should now have a large list of indicators on your poster. You must identify which ones are Health, Social and Economic indicators. Colour code them by drawing a circle around them in one of the following colours. Economic Indicators Health Indicators Social indicators

Development indicators worksheet. Complete the development indicators sheet in your jotter. You must colour code the indicators depending on whether they are Economic, Social or Health. Then you must pick 4 of the indicators and explain in detail why it tells you if a country is developed or not. (example)

Development indicators worksheet. Example: Number of people per doctor: This tells us how developed a country is in a number of ways. If there is a small number of people per doctor it tells us that health care is good in a country. It also means that education will often be good as people are being educated to the level of a doctor. It will also mean that the health of the people of the country will be good.

Lesson plenary Pack away your jotters but stay in your seats. We are going to go around the class and see if we can come up with a different development indicator for each person. When you get one correct you can stand up and push your chair in.

Development indicators lesson 2. Title: The value of development indicators. Date: 06/06/2016

Development indicators lesson 2. Lesson aims: To find out why one indicator is not enough to decide how developed a country is. To examine the value of the different indicators.

Lesson starter The next slide has a number of pictures on it. Work out what indicator they represent and what category they go into (Health, Social or Economic)

S2RICH WORLD POOR WORLD Life Expectancy Adult Literacy People per Doctor GDP – average wealth of a person Energy consumed per person Calories consumed per day Infant Mortality People employed in Agriculture

Question: “One development indicator is never enough to tell us how developed a country is.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? What development indicator do you think is most important?

Development indicators: The value of indicators. During the next part of this lesson we are going to look at the value of different development indicators. You will see a number of indicators and you must discuss the positives and negatives of each of them. You must write the indicator down and the positives and negatives of using it in your jotter.

Birth Rate Is this a good indicator of development? Give reasons. Positives – this could be seen as a good indicator as if a country has a very high birth rate then it may mean that it lacks the resources to teach family planning. It may also mean that families have many children to help them work on their farms because many people work in agriculture. It may also indicate that health care could be poor because people may have more children in case one dies at a young age. Negative – a country could still be developed or almost developed but have a high birth rate Brazil could be an example. It doesn’t tell you anything about the economy.

GDP – Gross Domestic Product Positives - It gives you an indication of how much money the country as a whole has, if this is high then you can usually tell that the country is developed. Money accounts for education, health care and many other social problems. So if a country has a high GDP it will usually be developed. Negatives - GDP is an average (like all indicators) so it does not account for differences in a country. For example China has a high GDP but there are many people living below the poverty line (in some cases in rural china less than $1 per day) while other people are billionaires.

Development indicators value Development indicators are taken as an average and because of this they are not always reliable. One indicator on its own does not show enough data to tell you if a country is developed or not. Indicators showing an average do not show you the extremes in a country – for example people living under the poverty line in the USA while it has the largest number of billionaires on the planet.

Human Development Index HDI In 1990, the UN replaced GNP as the measurement of development with the HDI. It is a social welfare index measuring human literacy, life expectancy, and the ‘real’ GNP – that is what an income will actually buy in a country. The HDI is an attempt to compare quality of life between people and places and,unlike GNP, it can measure differences within a country

Lesson plenary Top 5 HDI (2011) Norway Australia Netherlands United States New Zealand Canada Can you guess the countries with the top HDI?

Bottom 5(2011) Chad Mozambique Burundi Niger Democratic Republic of Congo Can you guess the countries with the lowest HDI?

Task Turn to page 161 of the Geog S.G books. Complete activities 1-5.