source: CIA Factbook
We're teaching the economy portion of the curriculum currently. Before break, I taught about economic activities - emphasizing the difference in the four types of activities. To tie that lesson in to our lesson today on agriculture, I found the above chart online, which I put in my power point lesson. It shows the decline of primary activity as the world has become less reliant on subsistence agriculture and more reliant on commercial agriculture. I asked the students if we are eating less - they said no.. in fact, the world is consuming more food due to population growth. Yet the distribution of employees in the primary sector is down. This emphasized the shift to commercial farming.
The second graphic featured is a map of agricultural output. The dots show, in size and color, the amount of food and other agricultural products that are produced and exported by country. In our lesson on subsistence versus commercial farming, we looked at which countries still rely on subsistence farming (and why). This map helped emphasize that point.
**Both images are copyright free and available for use. For the full file instead of copy/pasting, go to this link.
Posted by Kathryn Jasper, Central HS
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