Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

China Syndrome

Subject Area

English Language Arts
Social Studies
Mathematics

Grade(s)

9, 10, 11, 12

Overview

In 1979 China introduced its one-child policy. Communist leaders hoped to raise the average annual income to $1000 a person. They felt that the rising population was holding back China's economy. Today, China's rate of population growth has slowed and its economy has soared. Did the one-child policy cause the change?

This informational material will apply a precalculus concept--the rate of change of a function--to a current issue in sociology--patterns of population change. There are links to additional information included.

    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 11

    ELA21.11.8

    Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from science, social studies, and other academic disciplines and explain how those disciplines treat domain-specific vocabulary and content and organize information.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.11.8

    Vocabulary

    • Academic disciplines
    • Domain-specific vocabulary
    • Content organization

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Strategies to read, analyze, and evaluate texts from various academic disciplines.
    • Content-specific text will often include a particular structure and domain-specific vocabulary.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine the use of domain-specific vocabulary.
    • Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine how the academic discipline organizes content.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Different academic disciplines may utilize different vocabulary.
    • Different academic disciplines may arrange content in particular organizational styles.
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 12

    ELA21.12.8

    Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from science, social studies, and other academic disciplines and explain how those disciplines treat domain-specific vocabulary and content and organize information.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.12.8

    Vocabulary

    • Academic disciplines
    • Domain-specific vocabulary
    • Content organization

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Strategies to read, analyze, and evaluate texts from various academic disciplines.
    • Content-specific text will often include a particular structure and domain-specific vocabulary.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine the use of domain-specific vocabulary.
    • Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine how the academic discipline organizes content.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Different academic disciplines may utilize different vocabulary.
    • Different academic disciplines may arrange content in particular organizational styles.
    Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 09-12 - Precalculus

    MA19.PRE.25

    Calculate and interpret the average rate of change of a function (presented symbolically or as a table) over a specified interval. Estimate the rate of change from a graph. Extend from polynomial, exponential, logarithmic, and radical to rational and all trigonometric functions.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:MA19.PRE.25

    Vocabulary

    • Average rate of change
    • Specified interval
    • Difference Quotient

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Techniques for graphing.
    • Techniques for finding a rate of change over an interval on a table or graph.
    • Techniques for estimating a rate of change over an interval on a graph.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Calculate average rate of change on a specified interval when given an equation or table ofa polynomial, exponential, logarithmic, and radical to rational and all trigonometric functions.
    • Interpret the average rate of change of a polynomial, exponential, logarithmic, and radical to rational and all trigonometric functions in the context of a problem when given symbolic representations, tables, graphs, or contextual situations.
    • Estimate the average rate of change for a specific interval of a polynomial, exponential, logarithmic, and radical to rational and all trigonometric functions functions when given agraph.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • The rate of change is the ratio of the change between the dependent and independent variable.
    Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Sociology

    SS10.S.11

    Contrast population patterns using the birth rate, death rate, migration rate, and dependency rate.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:SS10.S.11

    Vocabulary

    • population patterns
    • birth rate
    • death rate
    • migration rate
    • dependency rate
    • urbanization
    • depletion
    • natural resources

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • How human social patterns affect population change.
    • The factors that lead to resource depletion.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Analyze population patterns.
    • Understand how human social patterns affect population change.
    • Analyze factors that lead to resource depletion.
    • Project future population patterns.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • There are different rates that affect population change.
    • You use current knowledge of factors that affect population change to determine future population patterns.
    • There are factors that lead to resource depletion.
    Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Sociology

    SS10.S.11

    Contrast population patterns using the birth rate, death rate, migration rate, and dependency rate.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:SS10.S.11

    Vocabulary

    • population patterns
    • birth rate
    • death rate
    • migration rate
    • dependency rate
    • urbanization
    • depletion
    • natural resources

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • How human social patterns affect population change.
    • The factors that lead to resource depletion.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Analyze population patterns.
    • Understand how human social patterns affect population change.
    • Analyze factors that lead to resource depletion.
    • Project future population patterns.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • There are different rates that affect population change.
    • You use current knowledge of factors that affect population change to determine future population patterns.
    • There are factors that lead to resource depletion.
    Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Sociology

    SS10.S.11.3

    Projecting future population patterns

    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 11

    ELA21.11.8

    Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from science, social studies, and other academic disciplines and explain how those disciplines treat domain-specific vocabulary and content and organize information.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.11.8

    Vocabulary

    • Academic disciplines
    • Domain-specific vocabulary
    • Content organization

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Strategies to read, analyze, and evaluate texts from various academic disciplines.
    • Content-specific text will often include a particular structure and domain-specific vocabulary.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine the use of domain-specific vocabulary.
    • Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine how the academic discipline organizes content.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Different academic disciplines may utilize different vocabulary.
    • Different academic disciplines may arrange content in particular organizational styles.
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 12

    ELA21.12.8

    Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from science, social studies, and other academic disciplines and explain how those disciplines treat domain-specific vocabulary and content and organize information.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.12.8

    Vocabulary

    • Academic disciplines
    • Domain-specific vocabulary
    • Content organization

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Strategies to read, analyze, and evaluate texts from various academic disciplines.
    • Content-specific text will often include a particular structure and domain-specific vocabulary.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine the use of domain-specific vocabulary.
    • Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine how the academic discipline organizes content.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Different academic disciplines may utilize different vocabulary.
    • Different academic disciplines may arrange content in particular organizational styles.
    Link to Resource

    CR Resource Type

    Informational Material

    Resource Provider

    CK-12
    Accessibility

    Accessibility

    Text Resources: Content is organized under headings and subheadings
    License

    License Type

    Custom
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