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** Lesson Plan **
Title of Lesson: Population Geography || Date: Timeframe of Lesson: One 50 min class period and one day of community service || Author(s): Eric Stauss || School District: Marinette School District Campus: Marinette High School || Subject Area(s): World Cultures || Grade Level(s)/Course: 9th Grade “At-Risk” World Cultures || State Standards [] The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies, including the use of technology, to encourage children's development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills. |||| Subject Specific: A.8.3 Use an atlas to estimate distance, calculate scale, identify dominant patterns of climate and land use, and compute population density A.8.7 Describe the movement of people, ideas, diseases, and products throughout the world  A.12.4 Analyze the short-term and long-term effects that major changes in population in various parts of the world have had or might have on the environment  A.12.5 Use a variety of geographic information and resources to analyze and illustrate the ways in which the unequal global distribution of natural resources influences trade and shapes economic patterns // Technology Specific ////: // []  Or the info.pdf file in the Lesson Folder.  || Stated Objective(s) |||| Students will understand the meaning of population geography, what demographers do, how to calculate population density, population change, and population trends. Students will understand how to read a population graph. Students will calculate their ecological footprint using websites. Students will participate in community service to help clean up neighborhoods. || Procedures for Lesson |||| We will begin this lesson by using direct instruction. Students will take notes and discuss topics such as demography, calculating population density, population predicting, and impacts on population change. This will be accomplished through the use of a promethean board. After the instruction is given, students will use laptops to access the ecological footprint website at []. After the personal footprint is calculated, students will take a POPulation quiz in order to evaluate retained information. On the second day of the lesson, students will be in collaboration with the Marinette Community Elderly Services to clean up yards for the elderly in the community. This will be a one day event in which students will participate in raking lawns, mowing yards, and doing landscaping projects for area residents. || Assessment or Evaluation |||| Students will be formally assessed in measurable terms by the POPulation quiz and eventually the Chapter 5 test at the end of the unit.  Students will be informally evaluated through their class participation in the discussion, along with their participation and completion of the survey after the community service portion of the lesson. || Enrichment |||| During this lesson students will be exposed to technology through the use of the personal footprint website. We will also be utilizing the Promethean technology throughout the direct instruction, as well as using the Promethean Activotes for the POPulation Quiz portion of the lesson. Students will gain insight to a “real world” issue of population growth and how it effects the world, along with participating in a community service project to make a difference in the community in which they are a part of. || Materials |||| Paper Pencils Promethean Activboard Activotes Laptops Rakes Garbage Bags Twisty ties || ||||
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 * __ Technology Resources __**** : **// Promethean Activboard; Activotes; Latops; http://www.footprintnetwork.org //
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