CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Agriculture and Human Population Growth Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key points about the evolution of agriculture and how it has impacted human population growth. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 12.6 Human Population
Understand stages of human population growth.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Human Geography: Population
Learning module for AP Human Geography course explores population, including factors affecting distribution and growth.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Human Population Growth Web Quest
This is a technology-based lesson plan that integrates science and math to investigate the dynamics of population growth.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: It's Crowded in Here! A Study of Plant Population Density
Like humans, plants can be negatively affected by overcrowding. Unlike humans, plants cannot get up and move to a new environment or explore how to utilize new resources. This experiment will explore the effects of crowding (population...
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Genetic Mutations in Humans
Discusses common mutations that occur in the human population and describes the many different types of genetic mutations and their impact.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Population Pyramids: Powerful Predictors of the Future
Kim Preshoff explains how using a visual tool called a population pyramid helps policymakers and social scientists make sense of the statistics, using three different countries' pyramids as examples. [5:01]
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Study of Human Geography
Geographers are social scientists who are interested in human activities as well as the physical environment. Human geography includes a wide range of topics, such as the study of languages, religions, customs, economics, and political...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le in the Billions and Linear Modeling
In this task, learners are shown a table of world population data and asked to explore whether linear functions would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. Aligns with F-LE.A.1.b.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Proect Ideas: Investigating Inattentional Blindness
The goal of this human behavior science fair project is to investigate inattentional blindness and visual perception and see what percentage of a test population notices an unexplained object in a video. The Science Buddies project ideas...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: The Expansion of Democracy During the Jacksonian Era
Lesson on how the character of American politics changed between the 1820s and 1850s as a result of growing popular participation. Complete set of resources including primary source material, teacher notes, vocabulary, and strategies for...
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.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 47: Get Up, Stand Up
This activity uses music from three different areas of the world and three different time periods in the 20th century to address the issue of civil rights for black populations.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Polar Discovery: Compare the Poles
A detailed comparison of many aspects of the two polar regions. Includes physical features, seasons, weather, types of ice, plants and animals, human population, and climate change.
National Geographic
National Geographic: National Geography Standards Migration
Detailed site that explains the National Geography Standards. It supplies an extensive explanation of voluntary and involuntary migration. This information is helpful for developing a better understanding of migration and human movement.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Water, Water Everywhere
Students learn about floods, discovering that different types of floods occur from different water sources, but primarily from heavy rainfall. While floods occur naturally and have benefits such as creating fertile farmland, students...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Endangered Species
Students research and create a brochure project on an endangered species of their choice integrating aspects of math, science, social studies, art, reading and writing. This project allows the students to make connections across the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Survival of a Species
Given scenarios, illustrations or descriptions, the student will describe how long-term survival of species is dependent on changing resource bases that are limited.
Other
Resilience Alliance: Mammalian Herbivores
This site from the Resilience Alliance provides an in-depth look at mammalian herbivore population patterns in boreal forests. It also discusses man's use of these herbivores.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Gene Flow
This site from Palomar college explains what gene flow is and describes a situation where this occurs in humans. Information is brief but factual.
Other
Urbanization
Discover how the development of industry has impacted the growth of urban areas. Take a look at a case study and read more information about this shift in population settlement.
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Understanding Migration [Pdf]
Why do people move? This curriculum unit tackles the complex questions about the causes of individual versus large-scale migration as well as the global effects of migration. Clear lesson plans and objectives are included.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Mass Exodus From the Plains
This site is from PBS.org explaining the migration of people out of the plains during the dust bowl. Use this article to learn all about the reasons people left and where they went.
Globio
Glossopedia: Bald Eagles
The bald eagle is a predatory bird that lives in North America. This article discusses bald eagle hunting habits, habitat, life cycle, diet, anatomy and mating habits. The concept of the food chain is introduced and is used to explain...
Other popular searches
- Human Population Growth
- Human Population Ecology
- Human Population Graphs
- Human Population Density
- Human Population Studies
- Human Population India
- Human Population Crisis
- Human Population Dynamics
- Human Population u.s.
- Human Population Us
- Worldwide Human Populations
- Human Populations Growth