1. New Unit: Population Studies
L/O: To understand why we study population, and describe how global population has changed over time.
Starter: On your iPad use the app ‘Uni Counters’.
Write at least 3 things you find interesting about the world’s population from this app.
Extension: Suggest why this might not be accurate.

2. What do we already know?
In pairs, brainstorm anything and everything you know about population on some GOOS.
Consider the following:
Why might people move to live in different places?
How the worlds population has changed?
What areas of the world do you think have the most people and the least people and why?

3. Put these numbers in order from highest to lowest
Put these numbers in order from highest to lowest. What do you think they might mean?
1,000,000,000
500,000,000
1,600,000,000
7,000,000,000
2,000,000,000
4,000,000,000
5,000,000,000
545,000,000
610,000,000
3,000,000,000
6,000,000,000
Remember to look carefully at the number of zeros in each number!

4. Population Studies Year Population 1500 500,000,000 1600 545,000,000
,000,000
,000,000
,000,000
,000,000,000
,600,000,000
,000,000,000
,000,000,000
,000,000,000
,000,000,000
,000,000,000
,000,000,000

5. What is population? Key terms:
Population means the number of people living in an area. This can be the world, a country, a town or even a small area.
Demographics means the study of statistics used to examine the human population.
Indicators are the statistics we use to measure a particular thing about a population. For example literacy rate measures the education system of a population.
5 minutes

6. So why do we study Population?
Think – Pair – Share
Sustainable fishing game?

7. Video Analysis Watch the video:
1:30 – 6:14
Name ONE event that reduced population?
Name ONE event that increased population?
How did that video make you feel?
TEXT or PEEC

8. Graph Analysis Describe this graph in ONE sentence.
Starter: This graph shows…
Extension: give reasons for the rapid growth since the 1940s

9. Mapping Activity
Use the blank map and Google Earth to locate and label the top ten countries with the largest populations.
Write a generalisation (one or two basic describing sentences) for the distribution of global population based on this map.
Remember to use regions (Northern/Southern Hemisphere, Continents, Compass directions).
Starter: The majority of the population lives…
Ext: Do you think this will change? Why/why not?

10. Where are we on our progress line? How much progress have you made?
L/O: to understand why we study population, and describe how global population has changed over time.
Where are we on our progress line?
How much progress have you made?
I’m not really sure what the LO is about
I fully understand the LO

11. Homework
Complete a 3,2,1 in your books (the back!!).