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Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Teaching Population: Hands-on Activities
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You’ve found the ultimate multi-disciplinary tool to introduce students of all ages to population studies – how human numbers have grown, changed, and shaped the world around us. It’s ecology, geography, anthropology, economics, biology, history, civics and real-world math all rolled into one.
This fully online curriculum offers 61 of Population Education’s hands-on lesson plans and activities for grades K-12, along with 24 student readings. It’s our “best-of” resource that includes many of our classic lessons combined with newly developed activities to meet the needs and realities of teachers today. Always developmentally and age appropriate, Teaching Population will help you find ways to tackle 21st century challenges with all ages and inspire students to be positive presence in their local and global community.
Features of This Resource
- Interdisciplinary lessons are great for team teaching.
- Active learning methods get students out of their chairs and moving.
- Includes many of the lessons you experienced at PopEd workshops!
Preview Lesson Plans & Readings
Sample a few of the lessons and readings found in the curriculum:
Lesson Plans
Crowding Can Be Seedy
Students participate in a simulation and gardening lab for hands-on experience with the effects of crowding on living things. Students...
Everything is Connected
Students create a concept map in cooperative learning groups to display cause and effect relationships between population, the natural world,
Lessons for Life
Students read and discuss a short conversation between two Ethiopian girls about attending school and read and analyze poems about...
Food for Thought
Acting as residents of five major world regions, students compare various statistics that affect people’s health and wellbeing. Students will...
Panther Hunt
Students act as panthers hunting for food in a model habitat to learn about dependence on resources and carrying capacity,...
World of Difference
In small group simulations, students compare the biodiversity of a temperate forest to that of a tropical forest and explore...
Readings
Kerala: A Model Case for Education
The global status of women case study reading: The Indian state of Kerala leads the country in women’s education, family...
How are People’s Needs Met?
Elementary-level reading on people’s needs and wants, and how individuals and groups access the things they need.
The Human Footprint: Land
Land use background reading: As population grows, we develop wild areas and arable land and overuse resources like soil, minerals,...
An Ocean of Problems for the Blue Planet
Ocean background reading: Take a closer look at the largest habitat on Earth – the ocean – and see the...
Lesson Plans
Crowding Can Be Seedy
Students participate in a simulation and gardening lab for hands-on experience with the effects of crowding on living things. Students...
Everything is Connected
Students create a concept map in cooperative learning groups to display cause and effect relationships between population, the natural world,
Lessons for Life
Students read and discuss a short conversation between two Ethiopian girls about attending school and read and analyze poems about...
Food for Thought
Acting as residents of five major world regions, students compare various statistics that affect people’s health and wellbeing. Students will...
Panther Hunt
Students act as panthers hunting for food in a model habitat to learn about dependence on resources and carrying capacity,...
World of Difference
In small group simulations, students compare the biodiversity of a temperate forest to that of a tropical forest and explore...
Readings
Kerala: A Model Case for Education
The global status of women case study reading: The Indian state of Kerala leads the country in women’s education, family...
How are People’s Needs Met?
Elementary-level reading on people’s needs and wants, and how individuals and groups access the things they need.
The Human Footprint: Land
Land use background reading: As population grows, we develop wild areas and arable land and overuse resources like soil, minerals,...
An Ocean of Problems for the Blue Planet
Ocean background reading: Take a closer look at the largest habitat on Earth – the ocean – and see the...
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