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Focus: Analysing

Grade: 10

Topic: Social science, Geography (demography)

From Norwegian curriculum after grade 10:

Samfunnsfag: “samanlikne storleik, struktur og vekst i befolkningar og analysere befolkningsutvikling, urbanisering og flytting i nyare tid” (Utdanningsdirektoratet, 2013).

Engelsk: “uttrykke seg med flyt og sammenheng tilpasset formål og situasjon”(Utdanningsdirektoratet, 2013).

Specific objectives social science:

Be able to compare two countries demographically

Specific objective English: Be able to use a vocabulary suited to discuss demography (e.g birth rate, death rate,urbanization,  life expectancy, mortality).

Into: In the into activity the students will work in groups of 4 and be given notes with different English words related to demography. They will first discuss the words in the groups and after they will explain their understanding of the words to the teacher. The teacher will help if they are struggling or need correction.

Through: In this activity students will work in pairs and compare two countries demographically, one industrialized country and one developing country. They can choose any two countries in the world and do independent research. Afterwards, they will use powerpoint or prezi to present their findings to the rest of the class. The reason why they will use these tools, is because they are user-friendly and makes it easy to create elegant presentations. Also many students are probably familiar with these tools from before. In the presentation the students are required to to include information about: population, birth rate, death rate, infant mortality rate, poverty, life expectancy and literacy for both countries.

Beyond:

In the beyond activity there will be a class discussion about the consequences of the huge global population growth in the future.The students will first discuss this in their groups of four and then the groups will one by one tell the teacher what they have discussed.

Assessment: The teacher will assess the if the learning objectives are met by watching the presentations.

Reflection: It`s important that the teacher knows how to use prezi, since it can be more difficult to use compared to powerpoint. The teacher also has to  combine pairs of students that work well together and can cooperate well. The teacher also has to help the students find reliable sources if they search the web.

Literature:

Utdanningsdirektoratet. (2013). Læreplan i engelsk (ENG1-03). Accessed from:

https://www.udir.no/kl06/ENG1-03/Hele/Kompetansemaal/kompetansemal-etter-10.-arstrinn

Utdanningsdirektoratet. (2013). Læreplan i samfunnsfag (SAF1-03). Accessed from:

https://www.udir.no/kl06/SAF1-03/Hele/Kompetansemaal/kompetansemal-etter-10.-arssteget