Teacher's Notes
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Teacher's Notes
Population growth can increase the severity of existing economic problems.Sub-theme:
The rate of population grows tends to decline as standards of education and well-being are raised.Concepts:
- Malthusian theory
- demographic shift
- economic growth
- developing countries
Performance objectives -- this lesson focuses on developing skills at:
- Interpreting a graph showing multiple factors
- Evaluating factors to determine whether they are causal or only correlative
- Imangining how daily life is different in poorer societies
The graph depicting the demographic transition has two scales. The red and blue lines, representing birth rates and death rates, are in number-per-thousand, and are read along the laft-hand scale. The black line, representing total population, is read along the right-hand scale. It would show the total population figures for whatever area was being examined (i.e., nation, region, or entire world). The graph depicts an overall tendency, so these numbers are not filled in.
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