East Asia Sketch Map Questions

East Asia Sketch Map Questions:
1.  Where do you think population is most dense?  Give at least two factors to support your prediction.
2.  Where do you think population is least dense?  Give at least two factors to support your prediction.
3.  Why is water such an important resource?
4.  What factors would explain why there is so much agriculture?
5.  Which factors best explain why population is so sparse in the North and West?
6.  Which industries would you expect to grow the most?  Why?

Religious Tolerance In SE Asia

Today's task is to investigate religious tolerance in SE Asia.

1.  Log into the cloud and open Google Apps For Students
2.  Use the following link to access the articles, maps, and data to help you respond to the "Student Response Organizer." There is also a chart to remind you of the different religions in the region.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1MUdxetj8MAb1NDZ3dwbWJQWDQ
3.  When finished, complete the "FINAL ASSESSMENT."

Environmental Issues In China

The folder with all of the articles, steps, and products that are due is here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1MUdxetj8MANkdBdlY2ZkVWUG8

You will be picking one environmental issue, doing research and creating a news report.  All resources are in the folder "Environmental Issues In China."

The research is due 28/29, report is due 30/31

Population in India and China

POPULATION ISSUES IN CHINA AND INDIA

OVERVIEW:

China and India are the two most populous countries in the world, but they have taken very different approaches to population control. Students will gather population statistics for these two countries, read about population issues in both places, and determine whether India should adopt a one-child policy like the one implemented by the Chinese government.

OBJECTIVES:

•      Discuss why a country might try to limit its birth rate

•      Compare life expectancy and per capita income for China and India

•      Use and online database to compare other population indicators for China and India

•      Write paragraphs explaining what these population statistics reveal about China and India

•      Read and answer questions about the population situation in China and India

PROCEDURE/EVALUATION:

1. Go to https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html.

2. Compare China and India on the following indicators:
1.  life expectancy
2.  population size
3.  per capita income (GDP-per capita)
4. birth rate
5. death rate
6. literacy rate
7. infant mortality

3.  Record the numbers you see. Make a chart that displays the information in an orderly way

4. What do these numbers reveal about China and India? Support your answer with specific examples from the statistics.

5. Read the article about China’s population controls and India’s family planning policies here:  http://www.country-studies.com/china/population-control-programs.html

1. What factors contribute to China's birth rates?

2. What is the government’s role in this country’s growth rate?

3. Should India have a one-child policy like China’s? Why or why not? Use specific examples from the research.

4. Hypothesize the economic reasons why people might want to have smaller families. In particular, how might limiting the number of children in a family affect the family’s ability to earn and save money?

5. Can you think of examples of the reverse scenario, in which it would make more financial sense for a family to have more children? Explain. 

6. Discuss the force that was sometimes used to “encourage” China’s one-child policy in a negative way.  In your opinion, could this happen now?

6. Read the following article published by the Associated Press which appeared in The Denver Post as well as in many newspapers around the country in July of 2010. 

http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_15542377?source=email

1. Looking this article in a strictly economic sense, is this an effective population control?  Why?

2. What is the ethical dilemma of government involvement in population controls?

3. What is your reaction to this article?

Monsoon Asia

India: Monsoon

Web Quest Challenge

Water in India is a matter of extremes, veering between drought and floods, life and death. There is no other place on the planet with such wide vacillations between wet and dry. Water weighs so heavily on the Indian mind that the Hindu faithful see the country’s rivers as sacred. Yet, at the same time, mastery of these holy rivers has been vital to India’s existence.1

Against this background this is a Web Quest Challenge for students to explore many aspects of the

monsoon in India, begin to understand the importance of the monsoon to the very existence of the

people, its place in the culture and some of the current issues in its management on the macro scale in

the day to day lives in rural and urban areas.

1.  Watch the introductory video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNl7URLPMKU

2.  Listen to music

The monsoon is celebrated with song and dance in the popular culture aka bollywood movies and pop

music as well as in classical music traditions.

Suggested search terms: Raag Megh Malhar or bollywood rain songs

o Do you know any other songs about rain?

o How do you feel when it rains?

o What season is most important to you and why?

3.  The Damned- read the following article and answer the questions:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/the-damned/water-wants-a-history-of-indias-dams/3098/

Some places have too much water and some none at all.

o What can we do? Explore issues around building big dams to manage water in the article

o Other countries have also dammed rivers to try and manage the water supply. Can you find

examples from other countries and compare outcomes?

4.  Read at least two of the articles here: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/series/thirstygiant/index.html

Answer the following questions:
o What are problems India faces when it comes to water? Too much rain, too little rain?

o How are people in rural areas affected? Do urban dwellers fare better?

o How would you cope with either too much rain or not enough drinking water?

5.  2012 Floods and Drought

As the above author mentions India veers between drought and floods – but 2012 saw both extremes at around the same time in different parts of the country.  Write a 3 or 4 sentence summary about how the floods and drought affected India in 2012.

Suggested search terms: India Monsoon floods 2012 and India drought 2012

6.  The Challenge

o Are there any solutions to weathering an unpredictable monsoon?

Comparative Religions

To complete the comparative religions chart- you can start here:
http://www.uri.org/kids/world.htm

Election Website for Students

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http://www.timeforkids.com/minisite/election-2016