![Unique format for compare wealth between the US, Central African Republic, and world that uses the sound of beans hitting a coffee can](https://populationeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/hill-of-beans-cans-125x125.jpg)
Students compare wealth of the average person in the world to that of a person living in...
![Photo of US History: Pumping water by hand in 1942 from the sole water supply in this section of Wilder, TN](https://populationeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/tn-valley-authority-water-supply-wilder-125x125.png)
Acting as presidents from various points in history, students compare U.S. demographic and environmental statistics.
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Using the ‘trendalyzer’ program from www.gapminder.org, students construct and interpret dynamic graphs and discuss differences in life...
![Question mark on the Earth for a quiz on population trends and events](https://populationeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/earth-with-question-mark-125x125.jpg)
A pre-test/post-test quiz designed to give teachers and students an overview of world and Canadian population trends.
![Students participate in a simulation that crowds them together to demonstrate population growth over the last 500 years](https://populationeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/crowd-people-back-of-heads-5x6-125x125.jpg)
Students experience the changing pace of population growth by actively simulating the Earth’s population growth over a...
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Students take an online ecological footprint quiz to determine their resource use and test how changes to...
Across the globe and in a short amount of time, we’ve given up the tractor for the...
![Apple slices represent different areas of the Earth: water, inhospitable land, used arable land, and arable land for farming](https://populationeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/earth-apple-labeled-slices-on-plate-125x125.jpg)
An apple is sliced into pieces to model the current amount of agricultural land on Earth. Then...
![](https://populationeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/everything-connected-more-people-web-125x125.jpg)
Students create a concept map in cooperative learning groups to display cause and effect relationships between population,...
PopEd Impact
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campuses
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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