Curriculum
Habitat Scramble
Students act as an animal or plant trying to survive by collecting cards that represent essential characteristics of a habitat:… Read more »
Crowding Can Be Seedy
A simulation and gardening lab that gives students hands-on experience with the effects of increasing population density.
How Many Fish in the Sea?
Students estimate a fish population (using goldfish crackers on a flat surface) by sampling.
People on the Move
Students participate in a “push/pull” simulation to identify reasons people migrate from one place to another and analyze the similarities… Read more »
Who Polluted the Potomac?
Watch the video to see Pop Ed staff walk you through the lesson. “Who Polluted the Potomac?” is an interactive… Read more »
Where Do We Grow From Here?
Students discuss the UN’s population projections to explore how small changes in the fertility rate can produce significantly different future population sizes. Students… Read more »
Water, Water Everywhere
Students observe a brief demonstration on the distribution of the world’s water and then calculate how much water they use… Read more »
Unfair Race
Representing different countries, students step forward or backward based on social and economic conditions in their borders, then consider which… Read more »
Timber!
In this role-playing simulation, students discover what happens to a forest when the demand for wood is greater than the… Read more »
PopEd Impact
64,000
educators trained
325
college campuses
32,000
workshops conducted
"The activities not only bring out important content, but they also provide real-world context for environmental, population and sustainability issues. They engage participants in very thought-provoking and critical-thinking discussions.”
Helen de la Maza, Environmental Educator, Irvine, CA