Unit 6 Development Lesson Plans – 2021-2022
Day 1: Friday 2/4/22
Objective: Define development and identify regions as developed/developing given individual country statistics. Compare and contrast regions of the world by their development. Analyze the factors that identify the stage of development of a particular region/country.
Activities:
- Bell work: Development Intro. PPT Slides
- Intro to Development Regions Activity
- Students copy down the statistical information for their group’s region
- Students compare their Statistical Sheets with other regions to determine which region is more or less developed.
HW: Complete the reflection questions
Ch. 9, Key Issue #1 due Monday
Day 2: Monday 2/7/22
Objective: Students will analyze key vocabulary terms used to show development. Students will explain how well each term describes “development” and economic factors.
Activities:
- Bell work: Define developed nation and developing nation and list an example of each
- Watch the Newsroom video clip (10 Min)
- Development PPT
- What is Development and Economic Factors of Development
HW: Key Issue #2 due tomorrow
Work on the Central America Map and Development Vocabulary Chart
Day 3: Tuesday, 2/8/22
Objective: Objective: Students will analyze development and identify the key economic factors
Activities:
1) Development PPT with notes guide
- infrastructure, technology, types of job
HW: Work on Vocab Chart and Central America Map / Quiz is Friday
Day 4: Wednesday, 2/9/22
Objective: Students will analyze development and identify the key social factors of development. Students will analyze the lives of people in Guatemala and compare their lives to those of a teenager in a less developed region.
Activities:
- Development PPT with notes guide
-(Non – Economic Development; HDI, IHDI, Health Care, Education)
- Read the article on Micro loans
- Begin watching, “Living on a Dollar a Day”
- Complete video guide
HW: Work on Vocab Chart and Central America Map/ Quiz is Friday
Day 5: Thursday, 2/10/2022
Objective: Students will analyze the lives of people in Guatemala and compare their lives to those of a teenager in a less developed region.
Activity:
- Watch, “Living on a Dollar a Day”
- Answer video questions
HW: Vocab chart / Central America Map Quiz is Friday
Day 6: Friday, 2/11/2022
Objective: Students will analyze the lives of people in Guatemala and compare their lives to those of a teenager in a less developed region.
Activity:
- Watch, “Living on a Dollar a Day”
- Answer video questions
- Students will look at the “Quality of Life” PDF looking at country rankings
HW: Vocab chart / Central America Map Quiz is Friday
Day 7: Monday, 2/14/22
Objective: Students will be assessed on the geography of Central America & the Unit 6 vocab words. Students will analyze gender inequalities and the impact of development.
Activities:
- Students will take a map / vocab quiz on Central America
- Development Country Rankings/ W.S. (Partner work)
- Go over answers
- Discuss islands and small countries and their GNP and Per Capita GNP
HW: Complete the Report Card on the U.S. worksheet
Key Issue #3 due Thursday
Day 8: Tuesday, 2/15/22
Objective: Students will be assessed on the geography of Central America & the Unit 6 vocab words. Students will analyze gender inequalities and the impact of development.
Activities:
- Read the article, “Five toughest places to be a girl”
- Development PPT w/ notes guide. (Focus on Gender Equality)
- Look at websites to give visuals on development (10)
- Women Inequality http://www.womanstats.org/maps.html
HW: Read article & answer questions on: “Women are becoming the driving force in Saudi Arabia”.
Key Issue #3 due Thursday
Day 9: Wednesday, 2/16/2022
Obj: Students will view the lives of 6 different African women and examine the obstacles that they have to overcome to achieve empowerment. Students will analyze economic & social challenges women face in developing countries around the world.
Activity:
- Watch the video: “We Will Rise”
- Students will complete the video sheet
HW: Finish the video sheet
Key Issue #3 due tomorrow
Day 10: Thursday, 2/17/2022
Objective: Explain why some countries are more developed than others in regards to their energy production or types of energy used. Analyze energy sources, production, consumption in the U.S. compared to other developed countries. Students will look at the two different paths to development.
Activities:
1) Take the Key Issue #3 Quiz
2) PPT Energy consumption around the world.
HW: Key Issue #4 due Monday
Day 11: Friday, 2/18/2022
Objective:Students will look at the two different paths to development.
Activities:
1) “Development Models” (Self Sufficient vs. International Approach)
HW: Key Issue #4 due Tuesday
Day 12: Monday, 2/21/2022
Presidents Day – No School
Day 13: Tuesday, 2/22/2022
Objective: Students will analyze the different stages of development according to Rostow’s Theory
Activities:
1) PPT on Rostow’s levels of development
2) Complete the Rostow / Wallerstein W.S. together
HW: AP Classroom Questions
Day 14: Wednesday, 2/23/2022
Objective: Students will analyze different plans on how to assist in the development of a country and struggles they may have for development. Students will analyze how to assist in the development of a country and struggles they may have for development. How do you pay for development?
Activities:
- Brainstorm: How do you pay for development in a developing country?
- Dependency Theory
- How to Pay for Development
HW: AP Classroom Questions
Day 15: Thursday, 2/24/22
Objective: Students will research and evaluate the impact of fair trade on a country’s development.
Activities:
- Explain the Fair Trade Project Assignment (Partners)
- Fair Trade PPT and Video
- Work on Project
HW: Fair Trade Project due Monday
Work on AP Classroom Questions
Day 16: Friday, 2/25/22
Objective: Students will analyze the barriers to development
Activities:
- U.A.E. example of Development (Is this environmental determinism or possibilism? Is it the Self Sufficiency or International Trade Theory?
- Discuss the U.N. Millennium Goals
- PPT “Barriers to Development / Finish Notes
HW: Fair Trade Project due Monday
Work on AP Classroom Questions
Hand out the study guide
Day 17: Monday, 2/28/22
Objective: Students will review for the Unit 6 Test
Activity:
- Play Kahoot
HW: Study for the Unit 6 M/C Test and FRQ Test
Day 18: Tuesday, 3/1/22
Objective: Students will be assessed on their knowledge of Unit 6
Activity:
- Take the Unit 6 Development FRQ
HW: Study for the Unit 6 M/C Test
Day 19: Wednesday, 3/2/22
Objective: Students will be assessed on their knowledge of Unit 6
Activities:
- Unit 6 Multiple Choice test
HW: Ch. 7, Key Issue #1 due tomorrow
