Social Studies 20Unit TwoTable of Contents |
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Unit 2 Concept Map - Population
Part A: This activity is intended to help students understand that they have assimilated a world view sometimes referred to as "modernity"*.that provides the fundamental assumptions or criteria they use to determine what is meaningful and worthwhile in their lives.
Part B: This activity is intended to remind students that we live in highly interdependent and specialized environmental and social systems. Students will study the causes of change, the rural-urban population shift, and its effects on the Saskatchewan social system this century.
This activity is intended to help students understand that they base their thinking on a set of unstated assumptions. Students will compare the basic assumptions of their personal paradigms to those of alternative paradigms.
This activity is intended to help students understand some basic concepts related to population growth and then apply them to human population growth.
This activity is intended to help students understand that projections are a useful tool, that they are inferences rather than predictions and, as such, have to be used carefully.
This activity is intended to help students understand the relationship between the composition of population and the social policies followed by societies.
The purpose of this activity is to give the students an opportunity to reflect on the population problem from their common sense perspective and ask themselves what might be reasonably done about the issue.
The purpose of this activity is to introduce students to the specifics of the demographic situation in some of the regions around the world. Students will be challenged to consider appropriate policy for handling the major problems of population growth.
This activity is intended to help students understand that change and decision making involves consequences that occur over the long run.
The purpose of this activity is to help students understand the role paradigms play in forming public opinion on issues such as population growth.
This activity is intended to help students understand the relationship between paradigm, theory, hypothesis, and empirical testing in a common sense way.
This lesson is intended to help students understand that people throughout history have responded to the world around them by adjusting their theories about how the world works in a way that makes sense, given their knowledge and assumptions.
This is an application lesson in which students are challenged to decide on the best course of action for societies to take at this point in history.
Here you will find the templates for some of the Student Work Sheets, Teacher Information Sheets, and Student Data Analysis Sheets.