Starter: Complete These Sentences

Starter
Complete these sentences:

Kenya is located…
Sustainable means…
Tourism in Kenya can be made more

sustainable by…
CHALLENGE What is ecotourism?

Is population growth exploding?
Learning Objectives:
• To know how global population has

changed and is expected to change in the
future.
• To be able to develop geographical skills
such as drawing graphs, annotations,
calculating natural increase and exam
questions.
Starter Challenge!
Carefully watch the video
‘World Population’. What
does it tell you about world
population growth from 1CE
to 2030? What has happened
to the rate of population
growth over this period of
time? What factors might
have influenced the
population change shown?
What do you think might
happen to world population https://vimeo.com/130468614
in the future?
Billions of people!
Use the data below to produce a line graph to show world
population growth from 1800 to 2185
• Use a solid line to show population growth from 1804 to
2011
• Use a dotted line to show population growth from 2011 to
2185
• Annotate your line graph to suggest why some of these
changes have occured.
EXTENSION: Study the line graph you have just drawn.

Describe the different rates of population growth between
1800 and 2185
Data to plot
Date Population in billions
1500 500 million
1804 1
1927 2
Challenge: If you
1960 3 think you can, plot
1974 4 the other
predictions too:
1987 5
Red = high variant
1999 6
Green = low
2013 7
variant
2028 8
Black = middle
2054 (8) 9 (10) variant according
to UN
2183 (7) 10 (16)
How to draw the graph
Use the data in the table to draw a line graph to show world population growth
Year World Population

1500 500 million (half a When drawing a line graph you must
billion) decide on the scale for the ‘Year’.
1804 1 billion
1927 2 billion Straight line 1500 - 2183.
1960 3 billion Divide up into 50 year intervals (x
1974 4 billion axis).
1987 5 billion
1999 6 billion
2013 7 billion Dotted line (into the future)
2028 8 billion
2054 9 billion Graph of world population growth
11
2183 10 billion
10
9
8
7
6
5
Population (billions)
4
3
2
1
1500 1550 1600 16501700 17501800 1850 1900 19502000 20502100 2150 2200
Year
Analysing a graph
1. Write a number of sentences to Challenge:
describe what your graph shows. 3. Analyse: Are some
areas of the world
You should include the following: adding more to the
– Descriptive words – rapidly, slowly, worlds population
quickly, steadily than others?
– Numbers – dates, how much it has • Can you think of
grown by reasons why?
4. Evaluate: Make a
2. Write a number of sentences to judgement. What are
explain what your graph shows. the main reasons, in
You should include: your opinion, why
– Literacy terms to explain – because, world population
as, due to, as a result of growth has:
• Changed?
– Reasons linked to sanitation,
• Grown?
medication, education
1. Write a number of sentences to describe what your graph shows. You should include the following:
– Descriptive words – rapidly, slowly, quickly, steadily
– Numbers – dates, how much it has grown by
My graph shows that the world’s population has grown/shrunk over time. It has grown quickly/slowly. It grew quickest
around…
2. Write a number of sentences to explain what your graph shows. You should include:
– Literacy terms to explain – because, as, due to, as a result of
– Reasons linked to sanitation, medication, education
I think that the population has increased because…
Plenary
Why does this lesson matter? Can you think
of 5 reasons why we need to know about
the world’s population?
Home Learning
Find out what world’s population is, what the
UK’s population is, what London’s
population is and what Barnet’s population
is.
Reasons for population growth
1878 Factory Act made it
illegal for children under 10 to
work in factories
The growth rate 1928 discovery of penicillin 1960’s and 1970’s the
continues mainly by Alexander Fleming so hippy movement
due to high birth many diseases can be fought encourages free love
rates in LEDCs and
low death rates in 1945 WW2 ends and
MEDCs 1860 John Snows with the return home
theories about of men there is a baby
Living standards germs travelling in boom.
begin to rise and so unclean water
there are fewer accepted 1988 Global Polio
diseases. Eradication Initiative
1900-1910 Discovery aimed to get rid of
1977 Smallpox is of the vacuum Polio an incurable
eradicated as a result of cleaner and washing disease prevented
world wide vaccination machine by injections
Graph of world population growth
2
1
1500 1550
Year
Graph of world population growth

2
1
1500 1550
Year

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Complete these sentences:

Tourism in Kenya can be made more

CHALLENGE What is ecotourism?

• To know how global population has

EXTENSION: Study the line graph you have just drawn.

1500 500 million

Year World Population

Graph of world population growth

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