Lesson Plan

Grades 9-12

Meeting Human Needs

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15 minutes (Part 1); 40 minutes (Part 2); 30 minutes (Part 3)

SUBJECTS: Social Studies

TOPICS: Needs/Wants, World Population Trends/History

Resource Overview

Students explore historical events at WorldPopulationHistory.org to evaluate past events’ impacts on human needs and create their own chronological timelines highlighting influential milestones.


Features of This Resource

  • Chronological thinking and historical reasoning
  • Technology component through use of online interactive timeline
  • Students include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify information.

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