14+Development+around+the+world

=Measuring Development:=

You will need to collect data from the CIA Factbook. Click on the banner below to go to the page.
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 * 5) Development Top Trumps.**

**i)** Download a copy of this document to your folder.



 * ii)** You will be told which countries you should find the information for. Use the CIA factbook to complete the relevant card.


 * iii) You will now complete cards for 4 more countries. Make sure no one else is doing the same country.**

=Mapping Development: What do the maps below tell us?=

Map of Life Expectancy by Country 2012 (source WIKIPEDIA)





 * ==== What is meant by 'life expectancy?' ====
 * Name 3 countries on each continent where you can expect to live past 75.
 * ==== Describe the global distribution of countries with life expectancy below 55 years. ====


 * Map of Birth Rates by country (2013) Data:World Bank**




 * ==== Write a definition of Crude Birth Rate. ====
 * ==== Name 3 countries with a birth rate less than 10.20 ====
 * ==== Describe the distribution of countries with birth rates above 23.79 births /1000 ====

What's the link?

 * ==== Describe the link between GDP/Capita and Life expectancy ====
 * ==== Describe the link between Life Expectancy and Birth Rate ====

Extension:

 * Find photos to show what life is like in each of the countries you have named in the map tasks above.
 * ==== Explain how the Millenium Development Goals can help reduce population growth? ====

Work through the following worksheets and get a better idea about why some countries have developed and others have been left behind.
Read 1 and 2 and then answer the questions on 2.

Read 3 and 4 and then answer the questions on 4.

= = =Assessment: Country Comparison Project=

You are going to produce a project on a country from the list below. You will be assigned a country. **Your project will**
 * investigate the country's landscape, climate, population, economy and culture using a range different sources.
 * Use data to illustrate what life is like in your country and how life has changed in your country in the last 100 years.
 * Use the information you have collected to discuss your countries level of development and compare it to the countries researched by your classmates.