SUBJECTS: Math, Social Studies

TOPICS: Exponential Growth, Global Change, Math - Population Growth Curves, World Population Trends/History

Resource Overview

This engaging population growth simulation helps students experience the changing pace of Earth’s population growth over the last 500 years. Through active participation, students gain insights into historical population trends, exponential growth, and factors influencing demographic change. The lesson promotes data literacy and historical analysis.

Use this video, alongside our Population Circle lesson plan, to engage your students in the most impactful activity on population growth. For more details on this lesson, click the green button below.

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Students participate in a simulation that crowds them together to demonstrate population growth over the last 500 years

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