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Abstract
This is the second PowerPoint lesson in a series of six.
In the first lesson, students learned the average number of
births per day, the average number of deaths per day, and that we
currently add approximately 9,000 additional persons to our planet
........ each hour.
In this lesson, students trace important
population milestones over the past 10,000 years of history and
project past and current trends into the near future.
Lesson fundamental understandings:
Essential
Questions:
Standards
National Standards This is the second
PowerPoint lesson in a series of six. In the first lesson, students
learned the average number of births per day, the average number of
deaths per day, and that we currently add approximately 9,000
additional persons to our planet ........ each hour. In this lesson,
students trace important population milestones over the past 10,000
years of history and project past and current trends into the near
future.
State Standards
Lesson
Prerequisite Skills
This is a self-contained unit and students can complete the
PowerPoint presentation itself by simply reading each slide and
using the mouse to click through the slides of the program. The
enrichment activities suggested below, if assigned, offer
opportunities to enhance student skills using search engines,
entering URLs to access internet information, developing graphs,
tables and charts, preparing PowerPoint or multimedia presentations,
etc.
Teacher
Information/Situations/Setting/Time This is a
self-contained unit and students can complete the PowerPoint
presentation itself by simply reading each slide and using the mouse
to click through the slides of the program.
The enrichment
activities suggested below, if assigned, offer opportunities to
enhance student skills using search engines, entering URLs to access
internet information, developing graphs, tables and charts,
preparing PowerPoint or multimedia presentations, etc.
Assessment
Student Activity/Tasks (1) Students
click through PowerPoint lesson (27 slides).
(2) Students answer
worksheet items based on lesson information.
(3) Students take
"self-quiz" (see closing screens of the presentation).
(4)
Students take turns reading worksheet items aloud, and specify the
correct answer to each item.
(5) Class discussion and further
research may follow at the option of the instructor.
Enrichment/Alternate Activity:
Cross-Curricular:
Technology
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