Welcome and great to see all of you! Today in class we will be starting our look at the World's Population! This should be a fun place to start our discussion and get to look at how and why our global population has reached the levels that it is at today and where it is going from here. I hope that everyone finds this as interesting as I do! Below you will find our agenda, homework, and resources for the day.
Objectives:
- Be able to define basic population vocabulary words and determine the trajectory of exponential growth over the past 2000 years.
- Discuss and read about the issues of population increase and potential ways to solve the crisis
- History Today
- Prompt: Then & Now
- When you were in 8th grade, what were some of your biggest concerns about being at Leland?
- What are 3 positive things you have experienced now at Leland you would want to share with the 8th graders preparing to come to Leland?
- Intro: Population Unit
- 7 Billion and Counting Video (See below)
- Google Classroom Activity -Read and Annotate: "The People Connection"
- Please read and annotate each section.
- Use the highlight tool to identify important info
- Use the right-hand column to:
- Define all bold vocab (Most vocabulary is defined in context or by context clues)
- Make bullet points for questions, comments, and short summary statements about the text.
- Be prepared to share out the main ideas from the text!
- Submit Reading and Annotation to Google Classroom TONIGHT
- Current Event #4 due Sunday @11:59PM
- Must be from Europe
- Europe Map Test on February 26!
Prompt: Take 3
What are 3 things you can share about the world population with a friend or family member you learned from today's lesson?
Homework:
That's all for the day folks! I hope that you all enjoyed our lesson and feel like you learned something! Take care and have a wonderful evening!
