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Students experience the changing pace of population growth by actively simulating the Earth’s population growth over the last 500 years.

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Grades 6-8
Population Circle
Students experience the changing pace of population growth by actively simulating the Earth’s population growth over the last 500 years.
Students multiply ratios, divide units of time, and subtract death rates from birth rates to calculate population growth rates.
Fun large-group simulation of U.S. population growth since the first census in 1790.
Students identify ways that many factors in human society and the natural environment are interdependent by creating a word web.
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