TEACHER ENRICHMENT INITIATIVES (TEI) - CURRICULUM - POPULATION DEMOGRAPHICS UNIT

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Unit: Our Aging World

Topic: Population Demographics

Rationale: Students will investigate factors that affect the quality of life for all, especially the aged individual.

Keywords: quality of life, statistic, population, percentage, longevity, life expectancy, life span, graph, map, population pyramid, aging population, entrepreneurship

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Lesson 1: Population Changes Over Time

Pre-Activity 1A: Review of Charts and Percents
Activity 1A: Growth of the Older Population
Activity 1B: Graphing Population Changes Over Time
Activity 1C: Processing Out Population Changes

Lesson 2: Graphing Changes in Life Expectancy

Pre-Activity 2A: Historical Factors Affecting Life Span
Activity 2A: Graphing Life Expectancy
Activity 2B: Predicting Life Expectancy & Survival Curves

Lesson 3: Life Expectancy Around the World Today

Pre-Activity 3A: Developing/Developed
Activity 3A: Life Expectancy at Birth
Activity 3B: Graph Life Expectancy at Birth
Activity 3C: Why the Difference?

Lesson 4: Population Change by Age and Sex

Pre-Activity 4A: Introducing Pyramid Graphs
Activity 4A: Population Pyramid Analysis & Supporting Dependency Groups

Lesson 5: Visualizing the Aging Population

Activity 5A: Class Discussion & East Asia Aging Fastest
Activity 5B: What Services Will be Needed?
Activity 5C: Challenges, Products, and Services

Lesson 6: Entrepreneurship and the 21st Century

Pre-Activity 6A: Advertising Techniques
Activity 6A: Create a Product for the Future & "Needs" Survey with Older Friends
Activity 6B: A Marketing Strategy
Activity 6C: Producing a Commercial & Viewing Tapes

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Overview and Background Information

Unit Overview and Background Information for Teachers

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Unit Objectives

Students will:

convert statistics on population growth to percentages
gain a historical understanding of changes in longevity
predict life expectancy in the future based on current life span data
translate population information from graphs to maps
analyze population information to draw conclusions on aging populations
interpret population pyramids in order to make generalizations about the growth of the aging population in our society
synthesize information concerning the aging population
create a product or service to meet the needs of the aging population

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