CHAPTER 11: GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHY

Activity 11. Title: Family Trees.

Create two family trees based on interviews with each of your parents (father side and
mother side). Try to trace your family connections as far back as you can. Expand lateral
connections as well. The “higher” you go vertically, the better. Unless you are the child of a single
parent, please remember that you have to trace the lines of two families – your mother’s and
father’s.

If you are a family of migrants, determine if your family moved from the provinces to the big
cities (Metro Manila or Metro Cebu) or vice versa. If they migrated to the cities, ask them when
the family moved, and why they left the provinces for the cities.

Write your findings and see if there is a pattern of demographic changes. Prepare a reaction
paper on the reasons why your family moved, the job opportunities opened to them and to which
they applied, the problems they encountered, and the ways in which they tried to resolve these
problems.

Double spacing, Georgia font style, 11 font size and use Microsoft Word (Screenshot and save &
send in PDF Form). Please include your sources or references.

Reference: The Contemporary World Claudio and Abinales 2018.

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 CHAPTER 12: GLOBAL MIGRATION

Activity 12. Title: OFW Survey.

Do a survey in your neighbourhood and ask families about their relatives (parents, children,
uncles, aunts, cousins, etc.) who had migrated or worked abroad. List down who they are, where
they migrated or are working, and for how long they have been there.

Your goal is to map your neighbourhood and determine how much of the families there are
reliant on relatives living and/or working abroad. After finishing your census, do a second survey
to determine how different homes are supported by immigrants/migrant workers. Check the
architecture of the homes, the way your neighbors dress, their vehicles, etc.

In class, use double spacing, Georgia font style, 11 font size and use Microsoft Word (Save &
send in PDF Form). Please include your sources or references. Please avoid copy and paste. You
may use Google as your search engine. Do not use Wikipedia. Use long-bond paper and 2-3
pages ONLY.

Ask yourself the following questions:

a. What has changed in our communities because of global migration?

b. How are people coping with the visit or return of the immigrants?

c. What changed among the immigrants/overseas workers when they went back (or visited)
home?

Reference: The Contemporary World Claudio and Abinales 2018.

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 CHAPTER 13: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Activity 13. Title: Finding Everyday Pollution.

Go around your neighbourhood and list the different kinds of pollutants that you see. Widen
your observation by looking at the areas surrounding your neighbourhood.

Make a list of these pollutants and check which ones can be recycled and which ones to be put
together for the garbage men to collect. With the recycled ones, list the possible things that you
can do to make them usable and explain this in a reaction report. Do not simply limit yourself to
what you can do with the recyclables. Your reaction report must include suggestions to the
neighbourhood, the barangay, and the city district.

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Reaction Paper:

Reference: The Contemporary World Claudio and Abinales 2018.

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 CHAPTER 14: GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY

Activity 14. Title: The Challenge of Feeding the World.

Discuss the matters and issues regarding the assigned topic in each group.

Group 1 – Rising Food Prices and Poverty

Group 2 – Population Growth and Urbanization

Group 3 – Rising Income and Changing Diets

Group 4 – Biofuel Production, Land Use Change and Access the Land

Group 5 – Climate Change

You may answer the guide questions below as you discuss your assigned topic by filling out
the Analysis Matrix.

1. How does this trend affect the food system locally and globally?

2. How can this trend be remedied for a long-term sustainability?

3. How does this trend shape global food security?

TREND QUESTION #1 QUESTION #2 QUESTION # 3

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Reference:

https://olfu.instructure.com/courses/74053/files/6752927?module_item_id=5876607

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 CHAPTER 15: GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

Activity 15. Title: What is Global Citizenship?

Notice that at no point in this course did we define global citizenship. That was intentional
because YOU will provide that definition. For your final activity, through an essay, a poem, a
video, a drawing, or a mind map, try to answer the question: What does it mean to be a citizen
of the world?

In class, use double spacing, Georgia font style, 11 font size and use Microsoft Word (Save &
send in PDF Form). Please include your sources or references. Please avoid copy and paste. You
may use Google as your search engine. Do not use Wikipedia. Use long-bond paper. 4-5
paragraphs and 2-3 pages ONLY.

Reference: The Contemporary World Claudio and Abinales 2018.