Video
Grades 9-12
The Peopling of Our Planet
Students participate in an interactive story discussing how improvements in medicine, food and agriculture, and public health and sanitation during the Industrial Revolution contributed to population growth. They then create a poster capturing a “demographic moment in time” for different points in history.
Students construct and interpret population pyramids for six countries and discuss differences in the population growth rates of each.
In small groups, students explore changes in regional fertility rates and life expectancy trends over time and discuss how factors... Read more »
Students access www.WorldPopulationHistory.org to research historical events and determine which events they deem to be most important in meeting human needs. Students... Read more »
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