![Question mark on the Earth for a quiz on population trends and events](https://populationeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/earth-with-question-mark-125x125.jpg)
A pre-test/post-test quiz designed to give teachers and students an overview of world and Canadian population trends.
![Students participate in a simulation that crowds them together to demonstrate population growth over the last 500 years](https://populationeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/crowd-people-back-of-heads-5x6-125x125.jpg)
Students experience the changing pace of population growth by actively simulating the Earth’s population growth over a...
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Students take an online ecological footprint quiz to determine their resource use and test how changes to...
![Students conduct a life cycle analysis of jeans, sneakers, ear buds, or a lamp](https://populationeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/jeans-sneakers-earbuds-lamp-125x125.jpg)
Students compare the life cycle stages of four everyday products in order to hypothesize which item has...
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Students participate in a “push/pull” simulation to identify reasons people migrate from one place to another and...
![Students reaching for poker chips in Tragedy of the Commons simulation](https://populationeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/hands-on-poker-chips-125x125.jpg)
In two simulation games, students determine individual short-term consumption strategies that will maximize resources for the entire...
![](https://populationeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/almighty-aquifers-game-board-125x125.jpg)
Students play a game mimicking the relationship between population growth and U.S. aquifer depletion.
![In the graphing activity Population Future, students compare global population distribution today and future projections](https://populationeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/population-future-graphs-2015-2100-125x125.jpg)
Students interpret a graph showing global population projections through 2100, then create gridded bar graphs to represent...
History of population growth background reading: Most human population growth has happened in the past 200 years....
PopEd Impact
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campuses
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"The activities not only bring out important content, but they also provide real-world context for environmental, population and sustainability issues. They engage participants in very thought-provoking and critical-thinking discussions.”
Helen de la Maza, Environmental Educator, Irvine, CA