Impact formula: metric
An activity
- Metric: a measure of some sort
Recall your 12 countries and rank them in size of the population from most to least populous.
Recall the most important ideas in Siry, chapter 1: Be Fruitful and Multiply e-book on line.
2. First pick a paragraph from the reading and explain its importance in five steps,
2.1 Restate clearly the meaning of the paragraph in your own words and with examples from your list of countries.
2.2 Summarize your point:
2.3 Explain what you said and the paragraph to a partner.
2.4 Apply the clarity and logic format or score card to each of your presentations to each other and tell the class what you discovered.
2.5 Revise what you wrote at the end of the class and post it to your individual wiki page.
E-book Population & Environment table of contents.
Population and International Conditions: The United States in a Global Perspective. Joseph V. Siry
Discussion of the facts
Metric Two: Impact formula & Rev. Thomas Malthus: "Essay on Population" (SS-1) Sept. 16
Use his argument about population growth to compare and contrast to your nations & the ten largest nations in the world with half the globe's people.
Keeping track of the facts and Malthus' concepts.
Consideration in revising what you posted last week.
A. Only evidence taken from and verified on the World Population Data Sheet is acceptable. So using that data think about how human impact varies from the largest to the smallest nations on your list.
1. The amount of people or population? Metrics (measures) One: Population formula from last week.
2. Note that family size is really Total Fertility Rate or TFR?
3. What is a rate? Do record the infant mortality rate & gender data can be found in life expectancy tables.
4. The urban population & number of urban areas in that nation or region.
5. Record the density of the population in each country and compare most to least dense countries.
6. Impacts: What data will you use for P in the impact formula.
B. Using the same six criteria above apply these to all the nation's that you selected and make a table, based on evidence taken from the World Population data sheet revise your Twelve Nation's data as you go and post this before September 20.
C. How do the ten largest nation's data and your twelve nation's data differ from what Malthus argues about population growth? Give two examples of what you mean:
- C, first point is:_______________ .
- C, second point is: _____________.
D. After working with a partner and telling the class what you found, review what you have written, revise that for clarity and make another post to your wiki page – for additional points.
Only your draft and finished essay will be to Blackboard™. But you can use your wiki page to store information to be used in your Malthus essay and your interpretations of the data you collect on these 12 nations.
If your posting to Blackboard™ passes the lowest acceptable data score, you post for a second time, the revised & refined description of your twelve nations and their seven or more related data points: population, total fertility rate, birth rate, death rate, infant mortality rate, life expectancy.
At the end of this month your revised data table can be posted to our class wiki's Contry-comparison page.
(Post to Wiki): this means you will revise remarks and add to the list of your nations and your rationale for how you selected them, which you did on the class wiki last week.
Your earned basic credit for that.
You can earn more credit if you answer this question with some of your findings.
What is the initial measure a nation's impacts on a region?
- 1) from the World Population Data sheet.
- 2) from the wiki's natural areas and regionalism page.
Compare these measures, called metrics, to the terms used for the numbers and formulas used in chapter one of the e-book on line; list the numbers that you think determine an impact.
Score card
| Criteria | points | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| accurate | specific data used | drew conclusions | |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Clarity | |||
| restated in your words | |||
| tied to the text | |||
| Length | |||
| Logical development | |||
| examples used? | |||
| tied to the reading? | |||
Score |
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21-18: very good, 14-18 good, 9-13 fair, 8-6: poor, 6 & below: failed to thrive
Bloom's Taxonomy of learning criteria by which to judge submissions of this task.
The population will always increase faster because?
Swift vs. Malthus & their critics. Swift MP, 1722, & Malthus, Essay 1798
A shorter 1798 version of An Essay on Population, by Reverend Thomas Malthus; Fordham University.the US Census data
E. Do make a list form the Malthus essay of the factors he insists causes population to either increase, or be checked – and thus not increase.
Having read Siry and Malthus with the data suggested above revise your initial submission on September 11. This is revised resubmitted and is due on 9/30:
Nations listed & for each nation
1) population size,
2) total fertility rate,
3) birth rate,
4) death rate,
5) infant mortality rate,
6) life expectancy.
You will also earn a greater percentage of your grade when you analyze this data again with respect to the other readings, and will revise your post to the class wiki on 10/30, and again on 11/20.
Steps: (A - B - C - D -E {E is done after reading Malthus})
next week
Next week
23 McKibben: Maybe (only) One, pp. 9-43. How significant is family size?
25 Siry, 2 on Fertility: How we got Here. Reproduction: How differently it is measured?
Finish writing about the facts in Malthus' essay and the opinions in Swift's essay as they relate to your nations and the data you have gathered.
Last Week tied to the initial reading.
Siry, Chapter 1 on Be Fruitful and Multiply (& re-read again this week).
Siry Introduction: C. S. Lewis quote, power, what did he mean?
Swift's "A Modest Proposal", What did he argue?
Were Malthus' actual suggestions compatible with Swift's argument about poverty and numbers of children?
Give two reasons how you think that is true or not true:
1)
2)
The perspectives: Did Malthus' viewpoint alter your views and say how your views were reinforced, altered, or unaffected by what he wrote?
your views were What How because? reinforced, altered, unaffected,
Rev. Thomas Malthus: "Essay on Population" 1798.
Steps: (A - B - C - D -E)
Remember last week you did create a personal page for your self on the Population class wiki to which you can post your draft writing and redrafted data to that page throughout the term.
