Activity 9: Developed and Developing Nations (180-240 minutes)

This is the culminating activity in which students gather and synthesize various previous products for evaluation and presentation in the form of a scrapbook about their country.

Expectations

• use a variety of geographic representations, tools, and technologies to gather, process, and communicate geographical information
• analyze, synthesize, and evaluate data;
• communicate the results of inquiries for specific purposes and audiences using media works, oral presentations, written notes and reports, illustrations, tables, charts, and graphs;
• construct a variety of graphs, charts, diagrams, maps, and models to organize information;
• compare the characteristics of developed and developing countries.

Assessment

• summative evaluation by teacher of scrapbooks, using Student Scrapbook Rubric, Appendix 9.1

Teaching/Learning Strategies

Provide the students with the following instructions:

1. Gather the data for your chosen country in a scrapbook. Paste your work on separate pages, and provide an appropriate heading for each item:
• From Activity 2, include the pattern of population distribution.
• From Activity 2, include the population density calculation and analysis.
• From Activity 3, include information on each of the population characteristics
• From Activity 3, include your original hypothesis stating whether your country is developed or developing.
• From Activity 4, include one statistic on employment in your country.
• From Activity 5, include your completed scattergraph with the addition of your country’s data. Write one or two sentences explaining why your country does or does not fit the pattern.
• From Activity 6, include the copies of pictures you feel are characteristic of your country. For each one, explain what is in this picture that makes it appropriate.
• From Activity 7, include the significant change that is affecting your county now and explain what affect this change has had or is having.

 

2. Demonstrate your geographic skill of correlation analysis:
• From all the population characteristics, except number of people, select two you consider to be really significant to your country. Write a short note in your scrapbook telling how these characteristics relate to one another in one or two sentences.
3. Analyze and synthesize your results:
• Review your original hypothesis about your country and write it in your scrapbook.
• List all the data you have collected and the analysis you have done which supports your original idea and place this list in your scrapbook.
• List all the data you have collected and the analysis you have done which contradicts your original hypothesis and place this list in your scrapbook.
4. Examine the lists and decide whether you still feel your country is developed and write this in your scrapbook.

Modifications/Expanded Opportunities

• Rather than a scrapbook, students present the same information through:
• a six-panel brochure;
• a group presentation;
• a web pages;
• an audio or video interview.

Resources:

• previously completed work, scrapbooks
• scissors, glue-sticks, rulers

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