Title: The Fall of Motor City
Recapping from the previous lesson:
2. Why does the average person in Vegas use more water than the average person in the UK?
Recapping the learning from earlier in the course:
Challenge Activity
DO NOW: Work on your own to answer these questions in full sentences in your book.
Use 5 adjectives to describe these images..
Title: The Fall of Motor City
DO NOW: Literacy - Can you write five adjectives to describe these images?
An adjective is a word naming an attribute of a noun (e.g. the quick fox)
An abandoned biology classroom
Lee Plaza Hotel, one of the favourite hotels of Hollywood Stars in the 1950’s and 1960’s
It used to look like this
The United Artists Theatre, abandoned since 1974.
It used to look like this
William Livingstone House, become known affectionately as “slumpy”, but has now been demolished.
What has caused this to happen?
Describe the trend in Detroit's population from 1920-1960 (4)
From 1920 to 1930 Detroit's population increased from around 1 million to 1.38 million. It continued to rise to a high 1950 of around 1.85 million, but in 1960 the population declined steadily to around 1.65 million.
Model Answer
Living Graph - Annotate your print out
As the motorcar grows in popularity, more people move to detroit to work for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - helping to manufacture the cars
Machines begin to replace people in the manufacture of motorcars
The growth in the motorcar industry begins to slow
Unemployed people begin to move away from the area to seek new work
Depopulation means there is less demand for other services, so more business close and more people leave
As unemployment increases, crime increases and more people leave.
Population decline slows down, many people left cannot leave due to job commitments or a lack of money.
What do the words in purple mean?
Living Graph - Suggested Answers
As the motorcar grows in popularity, more people move to detroit to work for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - helping to manufacture the cars
Machines begin to replace people in the manufacture of motorcars
The growth in the motorcar industry begins to slow
Unemployed people begin to move away from the area to seek new work
Depopulation means there is less demand for other services, so more business close and more people leave
As unemployment increases, crime increases and more people leave.
Population decline slows down, many people left cannot leave due to job commitments or a lack of money.
Challenge: Think back to the images at the start. Can you apply the negative multiplier effect to Detroit?
Task - The Negative Multiplier Effect
Negativity leads to more negativity.
You might be tired. If you’re tired you might be grumpy. If you’re grumpy you might say something that upsets someone. Then they get grumpy… and the process continues.
High ___________
People leave the area to find new ______
Less _______ for services (e.g. shops) so more ____.
More ______ leave
______ decline
TASK: Fill in the blanks of the negative multiplier effect using the words below.
Jobs - Unemployment - Demand - Close - People - Further
Challenge: Think back to the images at the start. Can you apply the negative multiplier effect to Detroit?
Task - The Negative Multiplier Effect
Negativity leads to more negativity.
You might be tired. If you’re tired you might be grumpy. If you’re grumpy you might say something that upsets someone. Then they get grumpy… and the process continues.
High Unemployment
People leave the area to find new jobs
Less demand for services (e.g. shops) so more close.
More people leave
Further decline
ANSWERS
2022 was the start of Detroit returning to its further glories?
What positive effects could this have had on Detroit?
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