Urbanisation – The Big Picture

Click the link to view an animated graph: Gapminder

1. What does the graph tell us?
2. What questions do you have about this graph?
3. Based on what you see, can you guess what the graph would look like for another country of your choosing?
4. Check you prediction by adding the country to the graph and playing it again.

Use your textbook to find a definition for ‘Urbanisation.’

In your textbooks, pages 122-3, examine figures 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, what do they reveal about urban and rural populations around the world?

Claim-Support-Question

Watch the video below, then

1. Make a claim about the topic
2. Identify support for your claim
3. Ask a question related to your claim

See-Think-Wonder

Watch the video below, then

1. What do you see?
2. What do you think about that?
3. What does it make you wonder?

And Finally…

From your textbook, page 123, examine 1.3 and come up with your own definitions of what you think ‘push factor’ and ‘pull factor’ mean.