This project is intended as a culminating task for Grade 8 Geography - Global Inequalities: Economic Development and Quality of Life.
 
For this assignment, students will investigate and visually represent global inequalities, economic development, and their impact on quality of life through a digital infographic. Students will conduct research to investigate various quality of life and economic indicators in a country around the world (excluding Canada). After completing a series of planning pages, students will use digital tools to present their findings in an organized infographic.
 
For research, students can use notes that they took during the unit, their geography textbook, other non-fiction texts, or online sources.
 
This resource includes:
4-page Lesson Plan (With expectations, learning goal/success criteria, possible accommodations, and assessment strategies
Assignment Overview
Research and Planning (4 pages)
Written Explanation - Rough Copy
Resource Notes - Sources
Infographic Rough Copy Design
Reflection
Rubric
Infographic Example
 
Ontario Curriculum: Overall Expectations
Grade 8 Geography - Global Inequalities: Economic Development and Quality of Life
B1. 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
B2. use the geographic inquiry process to investigate issues related to global development and quality of life from a geographic perspective
B3. demonstrate an understanding of significant patterns in and factors affecting economic development and quality of life in different regions of the world

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