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Improving Maternal Health Cultural Characteristics Influence a Region's Character http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/10/g912/region.html In this National Geographic lesson, students will analyze demographic data and explore relationships between several cultural characteristics of nations. A key component of the lesson is examining health statistics including maternal health to draw conclusions about developed, undeveloped, and underdeveloped countries. This lesson provides some excellent country profiles that include maternal mortality rate, fertility rate, and other statistics related to the status of women in other cultures. The lesson plan eventually reveals the actual countries and through further research, the students need to draw conclusions about the nations such as "Countries that have high total fertility rates and high maternal mortality rates will tend to have poor health care." The lesson provides the background and the activities that will engage students and challenge their way of thinking about health around the world and in particular women's maternal health. This lesson would be suitable for students in Social Studies 8, Unit 1: Culture or Social Studies 11, Unit Curriculum Objectives Social Studies 8, Unit 1: Culture Identify relationships among the patterns of culture. Compare and contrast information and ideas in a variety of formats: written, oral and graphic. Engage in the research process to locate, collect, organize and present relevant data representations. Demonstrate sensitivity toward, and appreciation for, all cultural groups. Appreciate the need for accuracy in the portrayal of peoples of every culture. Social Studies 20, Unit 2: Population Know that the rate of natural increase in a population is the difference between the birth rate and the death rate. Know that population growth rates vary from region to region and that regions with different population compositions make different demands on social policy. Evaluation Links Saskatchewan teachers have been provided support resources for student assessment and evaluation from the provincial ministry of education, Saskatchewan Learning. Specifically, teachers have been provided with the document Student Evaluation: a Teacher Handbook, in print format. Chapter 4 on specific student assessment techniques contains a variety of ready-made rubrics, rating scales, checklists, portfolio set-ups and templates that could be adapted to each task developed in your classroom. This resource is available on-line at: http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/evergreen/policy/studeval/chap4001.html. The simple templates outlined on this Saskatchewan Learning site, will help you tailor your assessment to match any activity and ensure that your objectives are being met. Another source of easily adaptable evaluation material is Discovery School located at http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html. The site has both subject specific evaluation tools and evaluation instruments for process oriented tasks. You will also find rubric builders, portfolio evaluation instruments, graphic organizer evaluation strategies, etc. all at this site. Another rubric generator can be found at http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/. And, for a discussion on the value of using rubrics in the middle grades, teachers may want to go to http://www.middleweb.com/rubricsHG.html. |
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