Grade Level:
3-5
Teacher Resources
Riddles that help students conceptualize large numbers and understand the concepts of exponential growth and doubling time.
Students observe a demonstration of how much water is available on the planet for human consumption and...
Elementary-level reading on people’s needs and wants, and how individuals and groups access the things they need.
Elementary-level reading that discusses populations and the habitats that support them.
Students use small manipulatives and a sampling method to estimate the population of flowers in a field....
In a simulation game, students draw renewable resources from a common pool and determine short-term consumption strategies...
Students compete for global resources and experience the inequity of global resource distribution, and then trade to...
Students conduct a census of their schoolmates’ households, graph their data, and then analyze the results to...
Students experience the changing pace of population growth by actively simulating the Earth’s population growth over a...
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