Grade Level:
6-8
Teacher Resources
In a simulation game, students draw renewable resources from a common pool and determine short-term consumption strategies...
Students observe a brief demonstration on the distribution of the world’s water and then calculate how much...
Acting as presidents from various points in history, students compare U.S. demographic and environmental statistics.
Through a small group simulation using probability, students explore how different population growth rates are impacting biodiversity...
A 12 question pre-test/post-test quiz designed to give teachers and students an overview of world and Canadian...
Students experience the changing pace of population growth by actively simulating the Earth’s population growth over a...
Students take an online ecological footprint quiz to determine their resource use and test how changes to...
Students compare the life cycle stages of four everyday products in order to hypothesize which item has...
Students participate in a “push/pull” simulation to identify reasons people migrate from one place to another and...
PopEd Impact
64,000
educators trained
325
college campuses
32,000
workshops conducted
"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