Grade Level:
3-5
Teacher Resources
In a simulation game, students desiring to draw renewable resources from a common pool determine short-term consumption...
Students compete for global resources and experience the inequity of resource distribution around the world. Students will...
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...
Students participate as a character in an interactive story that explores how everything in nature is interconnected....
After matching everyday products to their natural sources, students “mine” chocolate chip cookies to discover possible impacts...
Students experience the changing pace of population growth by actively simulating the Earth’s population growth over a...
Students act as panthers hunting for food in a model habitat to learn about carrying capacity and...
In a short demonstration, students observe how populations grow when the birth rate exceeds the death rate...
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