APHG Unit 2
Unit 2: Population and Migration Patterns and Processes
Resources/Activities
- Understanding Population Pyramids Unit 2 Vocabulary List
- 8 Billion People
- PING Project Part I
- PING Project Part II
- Understanding Population Pyramids
- Demography video (questions)
- 2.1 - Total Fertility Rate
- Population Pyramids in Rutherford County
- John Snow's cholera map video
- Epidemiologic Transition in the Real World (Diffusion of Disease)
- Mapping Population Density (forward capitals)
- Thanos and the Malthusian Worldview
- Thomas Malthus and Population Growth
- The Population Bomb
- Overpopulation in Star Trek, "The Mark of Gideon" (1969)
- Thanos/Malthus article
- Malthusian Critics
- FRQ Practice
- Where We Came From
- The Uprooted Story Map (questions)
- Marc Gasol's mission to the Mediterranean
- Unit 2 GeoInquiries
Enrichment
- 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. A satiric short story that imagines life & death in a future world where aging has been “cured” & population control is mandated and administered by the government. Discussion Questions
- Population Pyramids (explore by country and year)
- Worldmapper
- World Population
- Population Reference Bureau
- History of the Census
- Population, Sustainability, and Malthus
- How Does Saving Poor Children Lower Population Growth?
- US Census Bureau Virtual Field Trip
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