Grade Level:
9-12
Teacher Resources
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...
Just a hundred years ago the world’s population had yet to reach two billion, less than a...
Students watch the video “World Population” and participate in guided exploration of an online timeline to explore...
Students access www.WorldPopulationHistory.org to research historical events and determine which events they deem to be most important in meeting...
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Helen de la Maza, Environmental Educator, Irvine, CA