1. Population 1

2. Leaning Objectives By the end of this lesson you will be able to:
1. Explain how and in what way the worlds population is changing
2. Evaluate your learning styles in order to find out how you learn best

3. PLAN
Placemat Activity

4. How could you find out about population problems around the world?
What will you need?
How could you find out about population problems around the world?
How will you know?
Other
How can you be sure?

5. What are the effects of an increasing population?
Food Production
What are the effects of an increasing population?
Housing
Health Care
Education

6. DEVELOP
Thinking Hats

7. Red Hat Which words sprang to mind as soon as you looked at this?
What did you feel as soon as you saw this?

8. Black Hat What are the facts and figures?
What data is there? (For example; names, dates, places).
What are the details?

9. Yellow Hat Be positive! What are the good points?
What happy / positive things are there?

10. Purple Hat What are the problems with this? What are the scary points?
What might go wrong?
Be negative.

11. Green Hat What are the alternatives? What might happen in the future?
What suggestions would you make?
What ideas do you have?

12. Blue Hat
You are in charge of making sure your group sticks to the ‘hat’ they should be wearing.
Example: you must make sure people are positive if they are wearing the yellow hat.

13. Further Development
Extend answer

14. Question
With reference to one country that you have studied today, explain how its population is changing and what problems that could create. [50 words]

15. REFLECT

16. Now think about the way you learned!
In what way did you learn best (and worst?)
I.E Finding out (researching) about the problems in India
Listening to the teacher explain
Discussing your ideas with the group

17. _ + I PMI Diagram Which strategy helped you learn best?
Which learning strategy interested you the most?
Which was least effective?