Grade Level:
9-12
Teacher Resources
Number of people living in urban areas vs rural areas starting in 1950 and projected to 2050.
Historic growth in the number of cities with over 1 million residents from 1960 to 2030.
How energy sources need to change by 2050 for Earth to stay below 2 degrees C warming.
Forest loss in Indonesia and the Brazilian Amazon as a percentage of 1970s forest remaining in 2020.
Earth graphics display human's growing global footprint from 1968 to 1993 to 2018.
Comparison graphs of three coral reefs' shrinking size over recent 30 year period.
Display of the UN's population projections to 2100 including the high, medium, and low fertility variants
Percentage of children in low income countries with access to health indicators over time.
Number of coastal and ocean "dead zones" from the 1960s through 2010.
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