Grade Level:
9-12
Teacher Resources
Students listen to immigrant interviews and analyze a text about immigration history in the U.S.
Population dynamics background reading: An overview of world population history, current demographic trends, migration, and the concept...
Nine question quiz designed to give teachers and students an overview of world and U.S. population trends....
Students analyze, interpret, and evaluate conclusions on population data from the World Population Map, and then construct...
Students compare the World Population Map with an equal area map to calculate statistics related to urbanization...
Students use the Human Land Use overlay and Timeline on www.WorldPopulationHistory.org to research how humans’ changing use of...
Students discuss the UN’s population projections to explore how small changes in the fertility rate can produce...
Human population, now over 8 billion, cannot continue to grow indefinitely. There are limits to the life-sustaining...
The role and status of women around the world is very closely tied to fertility rates and...
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Helen de la Maza, Environmental Educator, Irvine, CA