Curated OER
Population Biology
In this population instructional activity, students will use a table with information about the birth rates and death rates from different countries around the world to complete 4 short answer questions.
Curated OER
Population Biology
In this population instructional activity, students will determine if 12 statements about demographic trends, including the effects of birth and death rates on populations, are true or not. Then kids will match 6 population growth...
Curated OER
Population-Building a Foundation
Students research to find information about populations and complete world maps by labeling the current population, and determining the 10 countries with the largest population. They search the "World Population Data Sheet." On the third...
Curated OER
Population Biology
In this population worksheet, students complete a word search puzzle by finding the 17 terms associated with population biology.
Curated OER
Population Dynamics of Growth of Drosophila
Students experiment with Drosophila to determine if density of female flies, food sources, temperature and light affect the population dynamics of growth. Students graph their data and compare their results to the number of human...
Curated OER
Population Dynamics
Students watch a video on population dynamics. They conduct an experiment where they fill up a designated space with students. They recreate multiplying rabbits using beans.
BBC
Bbc: Development and Health
This interactive website is a lesson for students in determining the factors that divide developed and developing countries. Major health issues of each are also included. Archived.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Disease Occurrence, Distribution and Patterns
In this comprehensive interactive tutorial you will learn how scientists measure the occurrence of disease and track the distribution of disease while trying to analyze patterns of illness.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Population Dynamics
Through interactive activities, reading assignments, and offline assignments, students explore the dynamics of human population.
Geographyiq
Geography Iq
Detailed geographical information on any country is available at this site. Within the World Map section, you can get facts and figures about each country's geography, demographics, government, political system, flags, historical and...
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Principles of Population Growth
An excellent interactive review from Palomar College of population growth and how it can be described. Try out the interactive calculators of population size.
Other
Breathing Earth
Breathing Earth layers data about rates of carbon dioxide emission along with birth and death rates onto a map of the world in a real-time simulation of one of the principal greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere, CO2.
Other
California State University: Biology Labs Online: Demography Lab
A comprehensive set of virtual experiment assignments where students explore four factors that affect the population demographics of seven countries, including population size and structure, mortality, and birth rate. Includes background...
Other
Mother Jones: What It Will Take
This blog article discusses population growth in the context of wealth, poverty, women's rights and birth control.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Population Growth
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how rates of birth, death, immigration, and emigration affect population growth.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Population Growth Patterns
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What does population growth mean? You can probably guess that it means the number of individuals in a population is increasing. The population growth rate tells you...
Population Connection
Population Connection: 7 Billion
This fact sheet from the non-profit organization Population Connection addresses the problem of overpopulation as the Earth approaches 7 billion residents. Includes statistics and details the reasons why many experts are concerned about...
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: Life Science: 12.4 Population Growth Patterns
Explore growth patterns in wildlife populations.