Grade Level:
9-12
Teacher Resources
Students analyze the timeline on the A Quick Trip to 7.6 Billion poster to answer questions and complete...
Students discuss the UN’s population projections to explore how small changes in the fertility rate can produce significantly different...
Students observe a brief demonstration on the distribution of the world’s water and then calculate how much...
Representing different countries, students step forward or backward based on social and economic conditions in their borders,...
Students participate in an interactive story discussing how improvements in medicine, food and agriculture, and public health...
Students construct and interpret population pyramids for six countries and discuss differences in the population growth rates...
Students develop an index of the ten factors they identify as most important to a sustainable community...
Acting as the residents of five major regions of the world, students compare various statistics that affect...
A visual demonstration of the limited farmland available on Earth (instructor cuts an apple to model available...
PopEd Impact
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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