Reasons+for+managing+population+growth-+Census


 * **Starter**: What is a census? Is it easier to collect information in more developed or less developed countries? Why? ||
 * __**Teaching points:**__
 * Introduce the idea that responsible governments need to constantly monitor their populations, by censuses and the recording of births and deaths- look at large maps showing census data in the US
 * Complete US census questions
 * The monitoring is necessary in order for governments to check what is happening to their populations. Are they growing or declining and at what rate? Does that rate of change ring any alarm bells?
 * How does the current population and its forecasted change relate to a country’s carrying capacity. Is overpopulation a likely outcome?
 * Thus if governments do detect population trends that in some way threaten trouble, then it becomes desirable that they should make some sort of corrective intervention.
 * The exact nature of the intervention depends on the anticipated problems.
 * Intervention may be directed at three different aspects of population – birth rates, death rates and migration.
 * The first has proved to be the most frequently targeted because this is the simplest and most effective way of getting a grip on population change.
 * Birth rates may be either boosted or reduced.
 * Death rates tend to be controlled in only one direction – i.e. reduced.
 * Controls on migration are examined are in //Chapter 13//.
 * Describe and explain census data from Houston

__**Resources**__

Large US population/census maps ||
 * __**Plenary:**__ Hold a two-minute debate on whether the class feel it is ‘right’ to manage a country’s population, or whether natural forces should be allowed to occur. ||
 * __**Homework**__: Complete //Activity 5//. ||
 * __**Skills**__:Geographical enquiry, basic, ICT. ||
 * __**Key terms**__: Birth rate, death rate, natural change. ||