Grade Level:
9-12
Teacher Resources
Students use cloropleth maps and the thematic timeline on WorldPopulationHistory.org to research how humans’ changing use of...
Students interpret UN population projections and visually model regional population changes from 1800 to 2100, before researching...
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 explore historical events at WorldPopulationHistory.org to evaluate past events’ impacts on human needs and create their...
Students write, film and edit a short video that connects human population growth to one other global...
As the instructor reads a historic story, students add and extract items from a model ocean based...
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