Chapter 6 (Fertility and Fecundity)
Reminders:
1. CCA Outline was due on Mon. Dec. 15. Thank you everyone.
2. Scattergraph is due Thurs. Jan. 8.
3. Chapter 6 quiz on Thurs. Jan. 8.
4. CCA Peer Evaluation of Draft on Fri. Jan. 9.
Lessons:
(slides for the whole chapter)
Tues. Dec. 16:
Chapter 5 quiz (postponed from earlier)
Fill in worksheet called Quick Version of Day 1 and do homework at bottom of it – read Pages 179 to 180 and answer page 180 #1 and 2 and page 181 #1 and 2.
mini baby boom in Canada right now (National Post, July 2014)
Wed. Dec. 17:
Work on creating your scattergraph for checking in class on Thursday. Do not make any lines of best fit yet.
Thurs. Dec. 18:
finish chart, using pages 184-187, on government policies affecting fertility.
Fri. Dec. 19: short day
Mon. Jan. 5: (Happy New Year!)
Read 181 to 184 and fill in the following chart. Make sure you understand the chart.
Skip this semester
HW: read and take notes on rest of section on voluntary childlessness, 197-199.
in-class Involuntary childlessness: Fill in Reproductive Technologies Chart using pages 192, 193, 196. Baby M case study.
Wombs for Rent (WebMD via Marie Claire magazine)
Tues. Jan. 6:
HSB4U Critical Thinking Using Evidence and Argument
Activity: “Wombs for Rent” article in handout package – identify evidence and arguments for justifiable and non-justifiable.
Wed. Jan. 7:
Activity: “Wombs for Rent” article in handout package – identify evidence and arguments for justifiable and non-justifiable.
Scattergraph due tomorrow.
Bring CCA draft to class for last minute instructions.
Thurs. Jan. 8:
Quiz on chapter 6.
Work on CCA draft. Peer Evaluation of draft tomorrow.
RESOURCES:
Worksheets (not in handouts)
How_Govts_Can_Affect_Fertility_Rates
Statistics
Statistics Canada: Fertility Overview, 2009-2011
Statistics Canada: Births Analysis, 2008
Statistics Canada Fertility Rates
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs: World Population Prospects, 2012 Revision (wallchart)
CIA World Factbook: Crude Birth Rates, 2011
Statistics Canada: Births, 1921-2007
Statistics Canada: Births and Total Fertility Rates, 1987-2007
Statistics Canada: Age Structure of Fertility Rates, 1997 and 2007
Fertility Rate Changes in Developed Countries (Population Reference Bureau)
Statistics Canada: Percentage of Women with University Degree
Statistics Canada: Women in Canada, a Gender-based Statistical Report
Canada’s Mini Baby Boom (Today’s Parent, very recent)
Assisted Human Reproduction
AHR Canada (federal agency)
AHR Live Births – Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society
Ottawa Fertility Centre Fees – 2011
CBC Digital Archives: Reproduction Still Unregulated (2000)
Infertile Canadian women buy frozen human eggs from US (CBC, 2012)
CTV News: Canadian Law Drives Infertile Couples to India (2010)
Illegal to pay surrogates in Canada (Globe and Mail, 2015)
Wombs for Rent Follow UP (article)
Slate article on financial incentives to have children
Low Fertility Rates in OECD Countries: Facts and Policy Responses (2003)
Japan’s Demographic Future (Population Reference Bureau)
An Aging Japanese Town Bets on Young Mayor for Its Survival (NY Times)
Baby M Case Study (Justice Harvard): For Sale: Motherhood (search under the term surrogacy)
Baby Gammy Case (AustraliaBC News, 2015)
Japanese Man Fathers 15 Through Surrogacy (AustraliaBC News, 2014)
Fighting Infertility: CBC Digital Archives (a series of audio and video links from 1960-2003 – sends you to main page – search for infertility)
See also Canadian Demographics at a Glance from chapter 5 post
Toronto Star articles on voluntary childlessness:
Notes from articles related to fertility:
Economist article notes Falling fertility
Themocracy