Year+11+(SL)

1. Make sure that your group has finished your MDG paper - ready for the game!
 * Homework: (due Thursday 20th)**


 * ANNOUNCEMENT: NEW BOOK IN** **THE SCHOOL LIBRARY!!**



1. Complete all of the questions on [|this] page. Including the map!
 * Homework: (due Tuesday 18th Dec)**

1.Complete the questions on origins of disparities:
 * Homework; (due Tuesday 11th Dec)**

Topics for the test:
 * TEST 2: Thursday 6th December **
 * Movement responses— international migration; Evaluate international migrations in terms of their geographic (socio-economic, political and environmental) impacts at their origins and destinations. Refer to case study: Mexico - USA.
 * Gender and change Examine gender inequalities in culture, status, education, birth ratios, health, employment, empowerment, life expectancy, family size, migration, legal rights and land tenure. You will need to be able to refer to examples.
 * Measurements of regional and global - Define indices of infant mortality, education, nutrition, income, marginalization and Human Development Index (HDI) Explain the value of the indices in measuring disparities across the globe. You must be able to define these indices, and evaluate their pros/cons.
 * Origin of disparities -- Explain disparities and inequities that occur within countries resulting from ethnicity, residence, parental education, income, employment (formal and informal) and land ownership. Refer to the case study: New York.


 * HIGHER LEVEL: You must be able to define: disaster, hazard, hazard event, risk and vulnerability. Also, learn the key facts for your case studies, and the reasons why people live in hazardous areas.


 * Homework: due Tuesday 4th Dec**

1. Using your map and notes: 'Describe and explain the pattern of disparities in New York' [700-800 words, 15 marks. To access more than 8 marks you must be discussing at least three different categories of disparities] See below for how you will be marked.




 * [|New York Link]**

1. Add the following statistics to your IB 5 + Germany sheet: a) literacy rate OR average number of years schooling; b) GDP or GNI; c) % of population with malnutrition OR average calories per person per day; d) HDI (Human Development Index) 2. Learn them! 3. Make sure you have finished this revision booklet below (make it detailed):
 * Homework: due Tuesday 27th Nov.**

1. Use the information you collected yesterday (on gender inequalities) to complete the essay plan on: "Gender inequality exists to some extent, in most areas of society, in all countries of the world." Geographically examine this statement. //[15 Marks]//
 * Homework: due Tuesday 20th Nov.**

1. You were given a 'letter' at the end of the lesson (except Madita: your letter is H). Go to [|this] page, read the articles / watch the videos for your letter only. (Here are the questions we did in class, based on pages 23-27: 2. Write at least 1/2 a page of notes on your articles, remember to relate what you have read to your specific topic. 3. Make sure you know your article and information well, you will be the expert in this field for the 'speed dating' session next lesson.
 * Homework: due Tuesday 13th November**


 * Interested in doing your extended essay in Geography?**



Samples of exemplary work by previous students



1. Watch the great student-made video below (it is GCSE level, but really good). While you are watching, fill out the boxes in your 'Mexico to USA' migration table. I will be collecting these tables at the end of the first lesson (after we have finished the presentation of the articles).
 * Homework (for holidays): due first lesson back**

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 * International Migration - Mexico to the USA**
 * 1) [|www.youtube.com/watch]
 * 2) [|www.bbc.co.uk/...world-latin-america-11090563]
 * 3) [|www.csmonitor.com/...buse-of-migrants-heading-to-US]
 * 4) [|articles.cnn.com/...ent-number-of-mexican-migrants]
 * 5) [|news.bbc.co.uk/...4152307.stm]
 * 6) [|news.bbc.co.uk/...7879206.stm]
 * 7) [|news.bbc.co.uk/...3582881.stm]
 * 8) [|news.bbc.co.uk/...4248232.stm]
 * 9) [|www.reuters.com/...idUSN1113270720100811]
 * 10) [|news.bbc.co.uk/...3233832.stm]
 * 11) [|www.pbs.org/...immigration.html]
 * 12) [|www.naplesnews.com/...ons_impact_felt_mexico_well_us (two people)]
 * 13) [|www.nytimes.com/...17border.html]
 * 14) [|www.treehugger.com/...-little-effect-immigration.php]
 * 15) [|www.treehugger.com/...mexican_governm_2.php]
 * 16) [|usliberals.about.com/...IllegalImmi.htm (three people)]

//**Classwork/Homework for Thursday 11th October**// 1. Study for your test by printing out and completing the pdf document below. This is a document that will be VERY valuable to you when you study for exams next year. So the more detail you put in now, the easier it will be to study in the future.



TOPICS:


 * Population change - be able to:**
 * Explain population trends and patterns in births (Crude Birth Rate), natural increase and mortality (Crude Death Rate, infant and child mortality rates), fertility and life expectancy in contrasting regions of the world.
 * Analyse population pyramids.
 * Explain population momentum and its impact on population projections.


 * Responses to high and low fertility - be able to:**
 * Explain dependency and ageing ratios.
 * Examine the impacts of youthful and ageing populations.
 * Evaluate examples of a pro-natalist policy and an anti-natalist policy.


 * Movement responses - Migration - be able to:**
 * Discuss the causes of migrations, both forced and voluntary.
 * Evaluate internal (national) in terms of their geographic (socio-economic, political and environmental) impacts at their origins and destinations.

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 * HL ONLY - Hazards & Disasters - be able to: (Note: You will have extra time in the test)**
 * Define: hazard; disaster
 * Explain the characteristics and spatial distribution of earthquakes and droughts
 * Distinguish between those hazards in terms of their spatial extent, predictability, frequency, magnitude, duration, speed of onset and effects.
 * Explain the causes and impacts of those hazards, referring to examples (i.e. your case studies)

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//**Classwork/Homework for Tuesday 7th October**// 1. Watch the short clips, skim-read the articles and go through the slideshow on [|this] page - whilst doing so, add notes to your case study on internal migration in China. //2.// Attempt this exam-style short-answer question: Referring to a specific example, describe the **positive** impacts that national (internal) migrations have at their **origins**. //[6 Marks] - (I will be collecting this next week.)//

Note: Hi Year 11, I noticed many of you have not yet answered my [|student questionnaire] for last year. If you haven't done so, I would really appreciate the feedback! Thanks.

//**Homework: due Tuesday 2nd October**// 1. Complete the essay plan. Your essay topic is: '“Evaluate China's pro-natalist policy.' //[15 Marks)// The mark bands are found here: [[file:913543_IBCC_Geog_403-404.pdf]]

//Homework: due Thursday 27th September// 1. Complete the questions (at the bottom of this page) on the German Pro-Natalist population policy. It must be DETAILED with as many statistics as you can find (to support your findings with evidence.)

//Homework: due Tuesday 25th September// 1. Read pages 12 to 14 of your text book. Make detailed notes on the advantages and disadvantages of an ageing population.

//Homework: due Thursday 20th September// 1. Read the articles given out in class (with a highlighted handy!). 2. Add notes, dopt points are fine, on the World Projections (Projections, Assumptions, Possible Changes) and Japan Projections (projections, assumptions and possible changes). This should be about a page in length.

//Homework; due Tuesday 18th September// 1. Complete the questions on the bottom of the second 'yellow paper' I gave you. 2. Complete the following table (word doc below), include the sources you used and print to bring next lesson. Here are some helpful links: [|CIA World Fact Book] and [|Index Mundi]

//Homework (from 4/9); due Thursday 6/9// 1. Complete 'Task 2' on [|this] page (username: cjdis, password: braunschweig). ONLY do the line graph - using the table of data on crude birth rates. This should be a line graph with dates on the x-axis, and number of deaths on the y-axis. Use 7 different colours (pencil please) and ensure you give your graph a title and a key. 2. On the blank map provided, show the 11 different regions of the world in different colours. Don't forget a title and a key! You are encouraged to use repuatable internet sites for this task!




 * Germany's Pro-Natalist Policies**

> > Complete the following questions in detail, using the links below.
 * [[image:http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/wMBOgpUFnRjSu05rWxoJDg133806/GW654H420 width="718" height="462" caption="Germany's Pro Natalist Policy - ISMibgeo2012"]]

1. Why did Germany introduce the policy? 2. How does the policy work? 3. What were the successes of the policy? 4. What were the failures of the policy? 5. How effective was this policy? 6. How could the policy have been improved to make it more effective? 7. What other alternatives are available for Germany?

German government policies [|Policy facts and statistics] Were they effective? [|Why German women continue to have few children] German population data (Check the data and see) Further Reading: Extremely Comprehensive UN Paper on Germany


 * Anti-natalist policy:** A policy that tries to reduce birth rates. This can be done through better education on family planning and better provision of contraception or a more rigid forced policy like China's (see below).

A country may introduce an anti-natalist policy if it is:
 * Overpopulated (the population is higher than the resources available)
 * Has a young population (high birth rates and total fertility rate)


 * ==== **China's One Child Policy (anti-natalist policy)** ====

China currently has the largest population in the world, standing at about 1.3 billion. China is the third largest country in the world, but only about 10% of its area is good for arable farming. Much of the west is covered in mountains and much of the north is desert.

China probably has the most famous population policy in the world. However, not everyone knows is that China actually had a pro-natalist policy after the end of World War II. During the war China was occupied by the Japanese. The Communist government never wanted this to happen again, so encouraged population growth to create a large army. This policy saw rapid population growth, but unfortunately the availability of resources was not growing at the same rate and in the early 1960's an estimated 20 million people died from famine. Because of the famine, in 1964 the government tried to promote birth control, but the birth rate still stood at 45 between 1966 and 1971. Because of the high birth rates the government promoted a new campaign 'Late, Sparse, Few'. However, the government didn't believe that this was having a significant enough effect and in 1979 introduced the one child policy.

Demographers estimated that China's optimum population was 700 million and the aim was to meet this figure by 2080. The policy was strictly enforced and there were punishments for people who did not follow the policy including fines, loss of jobs, removal of education and health rights for children and for women caught to be pregnant with a second child forced abortion and sterilisation.

At the same time as punishing offenders the government was also promoting the use of contraception and encouraging people to get married later. There are also some exceptions to the rule, families in rural areas were often allowed two children where people were needed to work on the land and ethnic groups were also allowed two children.


 * Successes:**
 * The total fertility rate has from nearly 6 to about 1.7
 * Population growth rate has fallen from a peak of 2.61% in the late 1960's to about 0.65% today
 * Birth rates have fallen from highs of 45 to about 13 today.
 * The availability of contraception has increased
 * Up to 250 million births have been prevented since 1979
 * China's population should peak in the first half of the 2030's (however, it might be as much as 1.45 billion)


 * Failures:**
 * There have been criticisms about human rights, not only over freedom of choice, but forced abortions and sterilisations.
 * Female infanticde has taken place, where the boys fave been favoured.
 * There is now a sex imbalance in China (117:100).
 * Many children have been abandoned for adoption.
 * There is an ageing population and an increased dependency ratio
 * There has been shortage of workers in some areas.
 * The so called 'little emperors' syndrome where only children are spoilt
 * The policy has been open to corruption. Many people have paid bribes to have extra children.
 * The population is still 1.3 billion and growing

[|China's one child policy - success or failure? - BBC article]

[|China considers relaxing one child policy - Guardian article]

[|China Sticking With One Child Policy - NY Times article] || media type="youtube" key="s9kdQLQYT5w" height="219" width="392" align="center" || Source: http://greenfieldgeography.wikispaces.com/