Grade Level:
6-8
Teacher Resources
Through riddles, cooperative learning activities, and a demonstration, students work through problems to calculate and visualize large...
A secondary reading that provides an overview of world population trends and lifestyles around the world. (Reading...
Students engage in a social media contest where they develop a Tweet on the topic of world...
Students multiply ratios, divide units of time, and subtract death rates from birth rates to calculate population...
Students identify ways to reduce solid waste by reusing items that might be disposed of in a...
Through an interactive story, students experience the pollution of a local river over time and propose methods...
Watch human population grow from 1 CE to present and see projected growth in under six minutes....
Through a short-story and discussion about teen pregnancy, and by interpreting a graph about global literacy and...
Students create a population density map of U.S. population over time, from 1800 to today.
PopEd Impact
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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