Topic 4: Population - AS Geography Unit Pack (CIE)

Full Unit pack for CIE AS Physical Geography Unit 4: Population

!!! UPDATED FOR 2024-2025 SCHOOL YEAR !!!

Teaching using these materials gives you a solid foundation to improve your practice and focus more on aiding students with exam skills and essay writing required for high level CIE AS Exams.

Features of this full Unit plan

• 20 Powerpoints covering all key content all made using official Cambridge documents and guidance
• All Powerpoints contain a Warm up, Main content with pictures/ graphs and plenary’s
• Integrated in Powerpoints are exam question breakdowns and discussion topics
• Major Case study information sheets for China’s one child policy, Sudan food shortages, issues of youthful and ageing population essay sheets. Malthus & Optimum Population sheet

Taught comfortably with time for essay writing and assessment in approximately 24 class periods. I will be teaching this using these materials in the 2024-25 school year again, any reviews, messages or notes for what you would like will be appreciated, I plan on updating this by the end of the 2025-26 year and adding even more material, so check back after purchase.

Full Contents

4.1 - Natural increase and population change

4.11 - Recent demographic change
4.12 - Factors affecting morality
4.13 - Population Pyramids and sex ratio

Worksheets

Aging population Japan case study notes
Factors Affecting Mortality Essay
population pyramid activity

4.2 - Demographic transition

4.21 Intro to the Demographic Transition Model
4.22 Criticisms of the model and changes over time
4.23 Issues of aging populations
4.24 - Issues of youthful populations
4.25 - Population and development

Worksheets

Ageing population Japan case study notes
DTM-sheet-(new)
DTM Essay Review
Issues of aging population
Japan and Gambia worksheet
Youthful population notes case study the Gambia

4.3 - Population resource relationships

4.31 - Food Security
4.32 - Causes & Impacts of Food Shortages
4.33 - Technology & Food Production
4.34 - The role of constraints in sustaining populations
4.35 - Carrying Capacity
4.36 - The Concept of Carrying capacity today
4.37 - Overpopulation & Malthus
4.38 - Optimum Population

Worksheets

Optimum population is difficult to achieve Worksheet
Food security worksheet
Food security
Food Shortages reading and notes worksheet
Wealth putting pressure on food production essay sheet
Make a Food security or carrying capacity Infographic
The concept of carrying capacity is irrelevant in
The consequences of food shortage are always negative worksheet

4.4 - The management of natural increase

4.41 - The management of natural increase
4.42 - The Need for a population policy - Case study China
4.43 - Impacts of the population policy
4.44 - Evaluate the relative success of the population policy

Worksheets

AS booklet case studies
China case study review sheet
Population Revision Booklet
Notes for China population policy essay