TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Is That Natural?
Students will brainstorm ways that they use - and waste - natural resources. Also, they will respond to some facts about population growth and how people use petroleum. Lastly, students will consider the different ways that engineers...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Great Divide
In this activity, students will use cookies to simulate the distribution of our nonrenewable resources (energy). Then, they will discuss how the world's growing population affects the fairness and effectiveness of this distribution of...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How to Make Yeast Cells Thrive
Students set up and run the experiments they designed in the lesson Population Growth in Yeasts, using simple yeast-molasses cultures in test tubes. Population growth is indicated by the amount of respiration occurring in the cultures,...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Demographic Transition
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the four stages of demographic transition.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Population Structure
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how population pyramids and survivorship curves relate to population structure.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Recent and Future Population Growth
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses recent human population growth and predictions of future population growth.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Growth of Human Populations
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how the human population is rapidly expanding.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Cities
This lesson plan shows that by studying the population of the U.S. through census figures, students can learn about interesting cultural and economic trends.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life
Read about what math has to do with cooking, chances of winning a game, even decorating your home. Teachers may want to peruse this site for ideas about real world applications in their lesson planning.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Census
Try this real world challenge that focuses on data collection, data analysis, and problem solving with information from the U.S. Census Bureau. Discover how these skills are applied in real life situations in this one page activity from...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: I Feel Renewed!
In this activity, students will simulate the equal and unequal distribution of our renewable resources. Also, they will consider the impact of our increasing population upon these resources and how engineers develop technologies to...
National Audubon Society
National Audubon Society: Advocacy
The Audubon Society focuses its efforts on attempting to slow the population explosion through various publications and resources.
Population Connection
Population Connection
This is the official home of Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth), a non-profit organization focused on slowing population growth. This site offers current information on government legislation and policy in this...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Science: Biodiversity and Conservation: Chapter Test Practice
Take this fifteen question practice assessment to review the concepts of biological diversity and conservation.
Other
Population Education: Homepage
Population Education provides teacher training and a variety of teacher tools to help educators on population concepts such as population growth, overpopulation, our effect on the environment, and related resources.
Other
St. Olaf College: The Malthusian Model
This site from St. Olaf College provides great information on the Malthusian Model for population growth. Great factual text is given, along with formulas and examples to increase the learning on the subject.
Cool Math
Coolmath: Population Growth
Explanation and examples for solving population growth problems.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Population Growth: Friend or Foe?
The environment has recently been the focus of much research and discussion. Because productive resources are limited, it is important that we use resources wisely to ensure that resources will be available for use in future generations....
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le in the Billions and Exponential Modeling
For this task, young scholars examine world population data from 1804 to 2012 and investigate whether an exponential function is appropriate for modeling the relationship between the world population and the year. Aligns with F-LE.A.1.c.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F if Logistic Growth Model, Abstract Version
For this task, young scholars are presented with an equation for a logistic growth model and are asked to analyze it. They are then questioned about a graph showing bacterial population growth. Next, they must use information from...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Worked Example: Problem Involving Definite Integral (Algebraic)
Using definite integral to solve a word problem about the growth in the population of a town.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Population and the Environment: Global Challenge
Look globally at the rising population and understand the impact on the environment, water supply, forestry, and biodiversity through the article and its supporting resources.