Photo of US History: Pumping water by hand in 1942 from the sole water supply in this section of Wilder, TN
Acting as presidents from various points in history, students compare U.S. demographic and environmental statistics.
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
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
Students experience the changing pace of population growth by actively simulating the Earth’s population growth over a...
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
An apple is sliced into pieces to model the current amount of agricultural land on Earth. Then...
Students create a concept map in cooperative learning groups to display cause and effect relationships between population,...
Students read a news article about local population growth and the resulting sprawl, create and write a...

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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