Transcript Human Environments: Development

Human Environments:
Development
Development indicators.
• Title: Development indicators
• Date: 17/07/2015
Aims of this unit:
• To find out what we mean by
development.
• To find out how we measure
development.
• To explore the value of different
development indicators.
Lesson starter:
• During S2 you all studied the Global Poverty unit.
• Some of the things that you studied during that
time will help you during the Development unit.
• Talk with the people beside you and then answer
the following questions in your jotter.
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What do we mean by development?
What makes a country developed?
How do we measure development?
How is development divided on a global scale?
Lesson starter:
What do we
mean by
development?
Lesson starter:
What makes a
country
developed?
Lesson starter:
How do we
measure
development?
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How is
development
divided on a
global scale?
The rich North
The poor south
Task 1:
How do we measure development?
• You will be put into groups of 4.
• Collect a piece of poster paper and a pen.
• Write Development Indicators at the top of the
page.
• Talk with each other and try to think of as many
development indicators as you can.
• Write them down on the poster paper.
GDP
Birth rate
Number of
newpapers sold
per day.
Calories
consumed per day
Percentage of
people working in
agriculture
Death rate
Adult literacy rate
Number of cars
per family
Number of people
per rooms in
house.
Infant mortality
rate
Amount of debt a
country has.
Crime rate
People per
hospital
Number of
computers per
family
Obesity rate
Task 2:
How do we categorise indicators?
• Now we must put the indicators into
categories.
• Can anyone remember what they are?
Development indicators
• Development indicators can be split into 3 different
categories:
• Economic Indicators
• Health Indicators
• Social indicators
What do you
think each of
these mean?
Economic Indicators
•These indicators are to
do with money and the
economy.
Health Indicators
•These indicators are
to do with health and
health care.
Social indicators
• These are to do with the
people of the country.
Employment, education,
housing all come under
this banner.
Task 2:
• You should now have a large list of indicators on
your poster.
• You must identify which ones are Health, Social and
Economic indicators.
• Colour code them by drawing a circle around them
in one of the following colours.
• Economic Indicators
• Health Indicators
• Social indicators
Development indicators
worksheet.
• Complete the development indicators sheet
in your jotter. You must colour code the
indicators depending on whether they are
Economic, Social or Health.
• Then you must pick 4 of the indicators and
explain in detail why it tells you if a country
is developed or not.
• (example)
Development indicators worksheet.
• Example:
• Number of people per doctor:
• This tells us how developed a country is in a
number of ways.
• If there is a small number of people per
doctor it tells us that health care is good in a
country.
• It also means that education will often be
good as people are being educated to the
level of a doctor.
• It will also mean that the health of the
people of the country will be good.
Lesson plenary
• Pack away your jotters but stay in your seats.
• We are going to go around the class and see if we
can come up with a different development indicator
for each person.
• When you get one correct you can stand up and
push your chair in.
Development indicators
lesson 2.
• Title:
• The value of development indicators.
• Date: 17/07/2015
Development indicators
lesson 2.
• Lesson aims:
• To find out why one indicator is not
enough to decide how developed a
country is.
• To examine the value of the different
indicators.
Lesson starter
• The next slide has a number of
pictures on it. Work out what indicator
they represent and what category they
go into (Health, Social or Economic)
S2
Life Expectancy
RICH WORLD POOR WORLD
GDP – average wealth
of a person
Energy consumed per person
Adult Literacy
Infant Mortality
People per Doctor
People employed in
Agriculture
Calories consumed per day
Question:
• “One development indicator is
never enough to tell us how
developed a country is.”
• Do you agree or disagree with this
statement?
• What development indicator do you think is
most important?
Development indicators: The
value of indicators.
• During the next part of this lesson we are
going to look at the value of different
development indicators.
• You will see a number of indicators and you
must discuss the positives and negatives of
each of them.
• You must write the indicator down and the
positives and negatives of using it in your
jotter.
Birth Rate
• Is this a good indicator of development?
Give reasons.
• Positives – this could be seen as a good indicator as
if a country has a very high birth rate then it may
mean that it lacks the resources to teach family
planning. It may also mean that families have many
children to help them work on their farms because
many people work in agriculture. It may also indicate
that health care could be poor because people may
have more children in case one dies at a young age.
• Negative – a country could still be developed or
almost developed but have a high birth rate Brazil
could be an example. It doesn’t tell you anything
about the economy.
GDP – Gross Domestic Product
• Positives - It gives you an indication of how much
money the country as a whole has, if this is high
then you can usually tell that the country is
developed. Money accounts for education, health
care and many other social problems. So if a
country has a high GDP it will usually be developed.
• Negatives - GDP is an average (like all indicators) so
it does not account for differences in a country. For
example China has a high GDP but there are many
people living below the poverty line (in some cases
in rural china less than $1 per day) while other
people are billionaires.
Development indicators value
• Development indicators are taken as an average and
because of this they are not always reliable.
• One indicator on its own does not show enough data
to tell you if a country is developed or not.
• Indicators showing an average do not show you the
extremes in a country – for example people living
under the poverty line in the USA while it has the
largest number of billionaires on the planet.
Human Development Index HDI
• In 1990, the UN replaced GNP as the
measurement of development with the HDI.
• It is a social welfare index measuring human
literacy, life expectancy, and the ‘real’ GNP –
that is what an income will actually buy in a
country.
• The HDI is an attempt to compare quality of
life between people and places and ,unlike
GNP, it can measure differences within a
country
Lesson plenary
Top 5 HDI (2011)
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Norway 0.943
Australia 0.929
Netherlands 0.910
United States 0.910
New Zealand 0.908
Canada 0.908
Can you guess the
countries with the top
HDI?
Bottom 5(2011)
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Chad 0.328
Mozambique 0.322
Burundi 0.316
Niger 0.295
Democratic Republic of Congo 0.286
Can you guess the
countries with the lowes
HDI?
Task
• Turn to page 161 of the Geog S.G books.
• Complete activities 1-5.