SUBJECTS: Math, Social Studies

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

Resource Overview

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

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

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