syllabus content identify and explain the changing patterns and trends of regional and global...

Syllabus Content

• Identify and explain the changing patterns and trends of regional and global disparities of life expectancy, education and income.

• Examine the progress made in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in poverty reduction, education and health.

Lesson objectives: To be able to describe and explain patterns and trends of disparities

Watch the video – where are there trends?

During this Video

1. Write down the trends of global incomes and life expectancy.

2. Note any factors and specific events that may influence either of these values that are mentioned by Hans Rosling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jbkSRLYSojo

FYI: The name of this graph is the Preston Curve.

Map from memory

• In groups of 3…..

Reflection questions

• How successful was your team work? • What language made you most successful

when describing the graph to your team? • How could you use this technique in the

future? • What can you say about development from

this graph?

In the same groups

1) Water / food production 2) Vaccinations / War 3) Government spending / education

What influence will these have on the trends?

You must each speak for 1 minute

Analysing trends

TRRAC

Identify and suggest reasons for the anomaly on the graph.

http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com

http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/trends

The education index is calculated using a country’s rate of adult

literacy and combined primary, secondary and tertiary gross

enrolment ratios.

Education• Can you name an example that has shown a

rapid increase in education? Suggest reasons for the rapid nature of the increase.

• Can you name an example that has shown a decrease, either overall or for a period of time, in education? Suggest reasons possible reasons for the decrease.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/01/content_9515384.htm

Research Task

• What is the global trend in income since 1950?

• Press play so that your graph produces trails for the IB Geography 5 countries.

• Draw the trails on the blank graph, from the resource below.

• Annotate you graph with suggested reasons for the increases and decreases in income, for the individual countries of the IB Five.

• Using evidence, explain the changing patterns and trends of life expectancy in one of the ‘IB 5’ countries. [6 marks]

Use this Essay Planner Tool to help organise your response.

• http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/trends/