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Reading & Interpreting Information.

The BIG Question/ Topic in Humanities is…

Today, we are looking to…

• To understand how countries are classified and how life differs from Level 1 to Level

4.

Low Income Country; Lower Middle Income

Country; Upper Middle Income Country &

Higher Income Country.

How Do Geographers Understand the Human World?

Key TermsPLTS/Gatsby Literacy FocusIndependent Enquirer & Effective

Participants.

Humanitarian Careers.

1. Where is South Sudan?G

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arlier in the cycle…

lder than a week…

raph or diagram analysis…

2. What do we mean by food security?

3. Out of Boserup or Malthus who had an

optimistic view?

4. Study the photos. Which factors can reduce

food security?





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Participants.


Prepare for Learning

HANThursday, 06 May 2021

GEOFACTExtreme poverty, defined

as living on less than $1.90

a day, is likely to affect

between 9.1% and 9.4%

of the world's population

in 2020, according to the

biennial Poverty and

Shared Prosperity Report.

How Do We Classify Countries?





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Participants.


Present New Information

Classifying Countries:

• The map shows how the world was viewed in the

1980s.

• It could easily be divided into rich/poor (or

developed/developing) with most people living in

the latter.

• These classifications are now unhelpful - why?

By 2020 the world has progressed, and 75% of the population live somewhere in the middle (with

only 9% in ‘poor’ countries). Therefore, the map is misleading as it completely ignores 5 billion

people and does not reflect how much progress the world has made.





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Participants.


What major changes to the world are mentioned?

What are the major changes now taking place?

Review & Reflect

Watch Hans Rosling explain

the idea: ‘Why most of the

world is now better off than

you think’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vr6Q77lUHE&t=37s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vr6Q77lUHE&t=37s





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Participants.



How should we classify countries?

• Instead of using two descriptors for

the word ‘rich and poor’ or

‘developed and developing’, we

need more categories.

• At GCSE, we use 3 - LIC, NEE & HIC.

• Hans Rosling uses 4

• The conclusion? No-one can decide on

how best to group the countries of the

world.

Low Income

Country

Low Middle

Income

Country

Upper Middle

Income

Country

High Income

Country

Newly Emerging

Economy





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Participants.


Categorising

the world

according to

4 income

levels:

Each figure in the chart represents 1 billion people, and the seven figures show how the current

world population is spread out across four income levels, expressed in terms of dollar income

per day.

Think of the four income levels as the levels of a computer game. Everyone wants to move from

Level 1 to Level 2 and upward through the levels from there. Only, it’s a very strange computer

games because Level 1 is the hardest, not easiest.






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Review & Reflect

Why do we need to group

countries of the world?

Should we all use the same

categories? Who would decide

these categories?





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Participants.


Construct

Task: You have a double-sided

information sheet which details what

life might be like for someone in

each level. Read the information and

then complete the summary sheet to

show what the key characteristics of

each level are. Stick into your books.





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Review & Reflect

One billion people live on Level 1. This is what we think of as extreme

poverty. If you’re on Level 1, you survive on less than $2 a day and get

around by walking barefoot. Your food is cooked over an open fire, and you

spend most of your day travelling to fetch water. At night, you and your

children sleep on a dirt floor.





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Review & Reflect

Three billion people live on Level 2, between $2 and $8 a day. Level 2

means that you can buy shoes and maybe a bike, so it doesn’t take so long to

get water. Your kids go to school instead of working all day. Dinner is made

over a gas stove, and your family sleeps on mattresses instead of the floor.





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Review & Reflect

Two billion people live on Level 3, between $8 and $32 a day. You have

running water and a fridge in your home. You can also afford a motorbike to

make getting around easier. Some of your kids start (and even finish) high

school.





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Review & Reflect

One billion people live on Level 4. If you spend more than $32 a day, you’re

on Level 4. You have at least a high school education and probably afford to

buy a car and take a vacation once in a while.





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Participants.


Silent Apply

Answer the following questions in

your book:

1. Describe how life changes as you

move from income Level 1 to income

Level 4. (4 marks)

2. Explain which income level your family

falls into and why. (4 marks)

3. Explain what you think could be done

to improve the lives of people in Level 1

and why it would help. (4 marks) Describe means say what you can see.

Explain means say why.

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