Grade Level:
9-12
Teacher Resources
Using the ‘trendalyzer’ program from www.gapminder.org, students construct and interpret dynamic graphs and discuss differences in life...
A pre-test/post-test quiz designed to give teachers and students an overview of world and Canadian population trends.
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...
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...
Students develop an index of factors most important to a sustainable community and develop models for measuring...
PopEd Impact
64,000
educators trained
325
college campuses
32,000
workshops conducted
"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