Population and Migration
Unit Overview
An understanding of the ways in which the human
population is organized geographically provides AP
students with the tools they need to make sense of
cultural, political, economic and urban systems. Thus
many of the concepts and theories encountered in this
part of the course connect with other course units.
Students will analyze the distribution of the human
population at different scales: global, regional, national,
state or provincial and local.
Explanations of why population is growing or declining
in some places will center on understanding the
patterns and trends of fertility, mortality and migration.
Students will specifically assess fertility rates, age-sex
structures (population pyramids) and the implications
of an aging population. Analysis will also include
refugee flows, immigration, internal migrations and
residential mobility. Finally, this part of the course will
enhance students’ critical understanding of population
trends across space and over time by considering
models of population growth and decline, including
Malthusian theory, the demographic transition and
epidemiological transition model. Given these
understandings, students will be able to evaluate the
role, strengths and weaknesses of population policies,
which attempt to either promote or restrict population
growth.
Key Concepts/Standards
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Data and measures used by population
geographers: the meaning and purpose of
population cohorts, rates and other
measurements
What are we told by the demographic
transition model
World population distributions, densities
and urban components
Population projections, controls and
prospects: estimating the future
The bases for spatial interaction
Measuring the likelihood of human spatial
behavior
Information and perception in human spatial
behavior
Migration patterns, types and controls
Essential Questions
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How does physiological density differ from
arithmetic density?
How do crude birth rates and the fertility
rates differ?
How does infant mortality influence life
expectancy?
How is a population pyramid constructed?
What variations do we discern in the spatial
pattern of the rate of natural increase, and,
consequently, of population growth?
How are population numbers projected from
present conditions?
What are the five stages of the demographic
transition model?
What was Malthus’s underlying assumption
concerning the relationship between
population growth and food supply?
What considerations appear to influence the
decision to migrate?
What kinds of migration movements can be
recognized and what influences their
occurrence?
What separates forced migration from
voluntary migration?
What is an intervening opportunity?
What are Ravenstein’s laws of migration?
What are the three types of push and pull
factors?
Formative Assessments
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Activity 2.1
Activity 2.2
Activity 2.3
Activity 2.4
Activity 2.5
Population Quiz
Socratic Seminar-Illegal Immigration
Summative Assessments
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Vocabulary Quiz
Unit 2 Test
Essential Vocabulary
Population
Age distribution
Arithmetic density
Baby Boom
Census Tract
Carrying capacity
Cohort
Contagious Diffusion
Crude birth rate
Crude death rate
Demographic equation
Demographic momentum
Demographic regions
Demographic Transition Model
Demography
Dependency ratio
Doubling time
Ecumene
Epidemiological Transition model
Exponential growth
Gendered space
Generation X
Hierarchical Diffusion
Infant mortality rate
J-curve
Life expectancy
Maladaptation
Malthus, Thomas
Maternal mortality rate
Mortality
Natality
Natural Increase Rate/Rate of Natural Increase
Neo-Malthusians
Overpopulation
Physiologic density
Population density
Population distributions
Population explosion
Population projection
Population pyramid
Sex ratio
Standard of living
Sustainability
Total Fertility Rate
Under-population
Zero population growth
Migration
Activity space
Chain migration
Counter migration
Cyclic movement
Distance decay
Emigration
Forced migration
Gravity model
Immigration
Internal migration
Intervening opportunity
Intervening obstacle
Migration patterns
• Intercontinental
• Interregional
• Intraregional
• Rural-urban
Migratory movement
Periodic movement
Personal space
Place utility
Pull factors
Push factors
Refugee
Space-time prism
Step migration
Transhumance
Transmigration
Voluntary migration
Date
Monday,
8.31
Topic
Migration
Monday,
8.17
Geography, it’s
nature and
perspectives
Date
Topic
Essential Question(s)
What considerations appear to influence
the decision to migrate?
Essential Question(s)
What
of migration
movements can
What kinds
is human
geography?
be recognized and what influences their
occurrence?
Daily Agenda
1) Population Quiz
2) Global Migration Patterns
Ravenstein’s
of Migration in
DailyLaws
Agenda
County Geography Pre-Test
1) Cobb
SLO: Human
Model
2) Gravity
Unit 1 Test
FRQs
3) Migration: Push/Pull Factors
Homework
4) Article: Market in
Migration
5) Article:
Economic
Homework
3) Migration
Study for MCQ Unit 1
6) Unit
Test 2 Vocabulary
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2)
3)
Unit 1 Test MCQs
Video Clip: 7 Billion
Why Study Population?
4)
1)
2)
Lecture: Chain
Migration
Population
Part I
Sources
of Population
Change in
Lab: Activity
2.1
the United States and the World
Video Clips: The Changing Face of
Europe
Lecture: Population Part II
STATE Round 1 Fates
Lab: Activity 2.1
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3)
What is an intervening opportunity?
Tuesday,
8.18
Tuesday,
Wednesday,
9.1
8.19
Geography, it’s nature
and perspectives
What are
is human
geography?
What
Ravenstein’s
laws of migration?
Population
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in the
the three
worldtypes
do people
liveand
andpull
What
of push
why?
factors?
Voluntary
PopulationMigration
What
appear
to live
influence
Whereconsiderations
in the world do
people
and
the
why?decision to migrate?
3)
Thursday,
8.20
Population
How does physiological density differ
from arithmetic density?
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2)
3)
How does crude birth rate differ from
total fertility rate?
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4)
Population Part II: Types
of Density (Blog)
Unit 2 Vocabulary
Article: UN Predicts
Urban Pop’l Explosion
Socratic
Seminar
Population
Part II:Prep:
Types
Immigration-Blog
of Density (Blog)
Articles
Unit 2 Vocabulary
Article: Arriving
as
UN Predicts
Tourists,
leaving
with
Urban Pop’l
Explosion
American
CompleteBabies-Blog
Activity 2.1
Article: Europe’s
Iran’s Pop’l
Migration
Crisis-Blog
Policy-Blog
Article: Mexico
Sex Ed Migration
in
Europe
Enforcement-Blog
Unit 2 Vocabulary
Unit 2 Vocab
Complete Activity 2.5
Wednesday,
9.2
Voluntary Migration
How does
infant mortality
life
What
considerations
appearinfluence
to influence
expectancy?
the
decision to migrate?
1)
2)
Socratic Seminar: Immigration
Introduction to Activity 2.5
Friday,
Thursday,
8.21
9.3
Population
Forced
Migration
Why isseparates
population
increasing
at different
What
forced
migration
from
rates in different
countries?
voluntary
migration?
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3)
3)
4)
2.1
Turn in Activity 2.5
Discuss articles
Lecture:
Forced Migrations around
Video:
Theand
People
Paradox/Video
the
World
Refugees
AnalysisHotel Rwanda
Video:
Lecture: Population Part IV (A)
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Video: Hotel Rwanda
Lecture: Population Part IV (B)
Lab: 2Activity
2.2 (DTM
Unit
Vocabulary
QuizRates and
Ratios) Phase III
STATE
Lab: STATE Phase II of
Development
Go
over quizzes
2) Unit 2 Vocab Quiz Prep
4) Article Review: The Case
3)UnitAgainst
2 TestBabies
Prep
5) Activity 2.2
6) Unit 2 Vocabulary
6)Unit 2 Test Prep
What was Malthus’s underlying
assumption concerning the relationship
between population growth and food
supply?
Friday,
Monday,
9.4
8.24
Tuesday,
9.8
Forced Migration
Population
Population and
Migration
Wednesday 9.9
Population and
Migration
What variations do we discern in the
spatial pattern of the rate of natural
increase, and, consequently, of
population growth?
What are the five stages of the
demographic transition model?
Tuesday, 9.10
Thursday
8.25
Population and
Population
Migration
How is a population pyramid
constructed?
Wednesday,
8.26
Population
How are population numbers projected
from present conditions?
Thursday,
8.27
Population
How does a epidemiological transition
model compare to a demographic
transition model?
Friday,
8.28
Population
How are population numbers projected
from present conditions?
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STATE Round Two Fates
Sample Unit 2 FRQs
Complete STATE Phase III
Turn 2inTest
Activity
Unit
FRQs2.2
Discuss
Article:
Babies
Unit
2 Test
MCQs
Lecture: Population Part V
China vs. Japan (in flux)
Lab: Activity 2.3
STATE Phase II
Turn in Activity 2.3
Lecture: Population Part VI
Population Policies around the
World
Discuss articles
Lecture: Population Part VII
Introduce Activity 2.4
Begin Video: Contagion
Turn in Activity 2.4
Finish Video: Contagion
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ThomasIraqis
Malthus
Article:
Flee to Safer
Articles
Ground
Unit 2 Vocabulary
Article:
Child Refugees in
DOC
Unit 2 Vocabulary
7) Activity
2.3
3)Unit
3 Vocabulary
8) Analysis of China’s One
Child Policy
9) Unit 2 Vocabulary
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5)
Unit 2 Vocabulary
Articles: Meningitis in
West Africa, MERS in
South Korea, Bird Flu
5)
6)
Complete Activity 2.4
Unit 2 Vocabulary
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Article: Global Migration
Unit 2 Vocabulary