KS3 Resources
Online CPD - Population and Migration
The aim of this tutorial is to investigate ideas around ‘population' and ‘migration' and how such themes might be incorporated into geographical teaching and learning at Key Stage Three. A range of information and teaching ideas is provided and the emphasis is on making learning relevant to issues of today in the UK whilst giving a wider global picture. Population and migration is a key issue or theme for 21st century geographers at Key Stage Three. Its study can develop understanding of the ‘Key Concepts', develop the ‘Key Processes', cover some of the ‘Range and Content', and support the ‘Curriculum Opportunities' of the Geography Programme of Study. Studying about population and migration enables students to address a whole range of political, socio-economic and environmental issues. Despite its complexity, it is a theme that can be incorporated into geographical studies of all of scales from personal, local, regional, national, international, continental and global. Seemingly never out of the newspapers, questions about population and migration are becoming increasingly central to national and geo-political conflicts and debates about identity, the nation-state, environmental change and sustainable development.
View the Population and Migration online tutorial presentation
Supporting documents:
Population and Migration presentation script
Key resources:
Net migration around the globe
Links:
Example of a World Population Clock http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf
UK Census data http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census/default.asp
Worldmapper website: http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/
Example of a footprint calculator: http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/
UNHCR website http://www.unhcr.org/basics.html