Resource Overview
Students experience the changing pace of population growth by actively simulating the Earth’s population growth over a 500-year span and then creating a timeline that visually depicts the population doubling through history.
Students will be able to:
- Describe trends of human population growth.
- Prepare a timeline that graphically portrays population doubling through history.
- Explain the basic attributes of exponential growth (slow start, fast finish).
Features of This Resource
- Students build a timeline using formal units of measurement to create the scale
- Lesson covers demographic changes during Industrialization
- Real population data is used and graphed
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