Grade 8 Overall Expectations:
Application: analyse some interrelationships among factors that contribute to global inequalities, with a focus on inequalities in quality of life, and assess various responses to these inequalities
- Where Does Your Water Come From? (article, WPL databases)
- Chapter 5: Environment, Health, and Quality of Life (article, European Environment Agency)
- Natural Resources in Canada (article, Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Canadian Geographic: A Developing World (interactive map, Canadian Geographic)
Inquiry: use the geographic inquiry process to investigate issues related to global development and quality of life from a geographic perspective
- OECD Regional Wellbeing (Interactive resource, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
- Canadian Geographic: A Developing World (interactive map, Canadian Geographic)
- OECD Better Life Index (interactive resource, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Understanding Geographic Context: demonstrate an understanding of significant patterns in and factors affecting economic development and quality of life in different regions of the world
- Sustainable Development Goals (website, United Nations)
- OECD Better Life Index (interactive resource, Organisation for Economic
- Co-operation and Development)
- Big Cities, Big Challenges (article, WPL databases)
- Population Pyramid in Canada (video, YouTube)