Year 9 homework - mapping poverty

In class you hve been creating your own chloropleth maps and you have been analysing them.



Your homework this week is to use this map and answer a 4 mark exam question. We will mark it in class next lesson.
Figure 1: Proportional map showing the proportion of all people living on less than or equal to US$2 a day.

Question: Using figure 1, describe and explain what the map shows. (4 marks)

Hint: Absolute poverty is defined as living on the equivalent of US$2 a day or less. In 2002, 43% of the world population lived on this little. This money has to cover the basics of food, shelter and water. Medicines, new clothing, and school books would not be on the priority list.
When almost an entire population lives on this little, it is unsurprising if undernourishment is high, education levels are low, and life expectancy short. In both Nigeria and Mali, 9 of every ten people survives on less than US$2 a day. South America has a relatively small poor population, yet 39 million people have less than US$2 a day in Brazil.

Worldometer

Today year 9 have been investigating population statistics.

A couple of girls found the following website:

Go and have a look... what suprised you?!?!? Please leave a comment and tell us.


Miss Udy



http://www.worldometers.info

We are the world......

Yesterday was the funeral for Michael Jackson. I did watch it on the TV and I did shed a small tear, especially when his daughter spoke. I grew up with Michael Jackson music, as many thousands of people around the world did.

This video made me think about what year 9 have been doing at the moment. We have been looking at teenage knife and gun crime and yesterday was the Festival of Change where we had a fashion show and speakers corner amoungst other things. But I felt that this video was of huge relevance.

I know it is perhaps hugely cheesy...... but sometimes it works....

When you're down and out
There seems no hope at all
But if you just believe
There's no way we can fall
Well, well, well, well, let us realize
That a change will only come
When we stand together as one

[Chorus]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me


Cheeseyness over with.... just happens on a rare occasion I promise!

Year 9 - don't forget to finish your letters for Alexander Rose!


Miss Udy

Year 9 Homework - 9Y4/9X3 and 9Y2 due on Friday 13th.

Good afternoon!

Using the comic relief website (http://www.comicrelief.com/) and/or another aid agency, research and find out what the money raised is spent on. Write about (only approx. I won't actually count!) 500 words about why they spend it in certain places. What are these organisations trying to achieve?

Any questions please come and find me, no excuses will be accepted!

Miss Udy