Grade Level:
6-8
Teacher Resources
Students play a game mimicking the relationship between population growth and U.S. aquifer depletion.
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....
Land use background reading: As population grows, we develop wild areas and arable land and overuse resources...
Students use beans to model population growth in several mystery countries while varying four key demographic factors....
Acting as countries in a simulation game, students discuss how resources are inequitably distributed throughout the world...
Students examine their own values by considering various environmental dilemmas and evaluating how different reactions impact the...
Acting as store owners, students conduct a mini-census to identify their potential market and then use different...
Students create a concept map in cooperative learning groups to display cause and effect relationships between population,...
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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