CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Future Human Population Growth
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes future population growth.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Human Population
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How quickly is the human population growing? If we look at worldwide human population growth from 10,000 BCE through to today, our growth looks like exponential...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Human Population
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of early human population growth.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Revolutions in Human Population Growth
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes causes of increased population growth.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Agriculture and Human Population Growth
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How advances in agriculture have been able to sustain larger human populations.
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.
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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.
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Population Growth
In this activity, you will study and analyze the nature and patterns of human population growth over the last 10,000 years. This will help you understand the differences between population growth before and after the Modern Revolution.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Population Growth Project
In this collection of nine lessons, learners use data from the U.S. Census to create population growth models and to examine the impact of changes in population factors such as age, demographic, etc.
Population Connection
Population Connection
Population Connection, a grassroots organization concerned about overpopulation and its affect on the quality of life, provides a wealth of materials about human population. Resources include world population fact sheets, factoids,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Cellular Respiration and Population Growth
Two lessons and their associated activities explore cellular respiration and population growth in yeasts. Yeast cells are readily obtained and behave predictably, so they are very appropriate to use in middle school classrooms. In the...
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.
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...
PBS
Nova: Global Trends Quiz
How is the human population changing? This quiz covers population trends in the developed world, and the developing world. Explore the impact human population growth is having on the environment.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Would Happen if Every Human Suddenly Disappeared?
What would happen if suddenly, every human on Earth disappeared? Dan Kwartler investigates.
PBS
Nova: Earth in Peril
A series of nine maps with accompanying explanations. They show how population growth has affected the environment around the world in terms of water availability, climate change, land and forest use, and more. There are both interactive...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Life Tables, Survivorship, & Age Sex Structure
This article describes tools ecologists use to describe the present state of a population and predict its future growth.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912
Ninety-four primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the challenges, opportunity, and turmoil of late-nineteenth-century America. They examine the economic expansion in an America re-united...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Changing the Ecosystem: Q & a [Pdf]
"Changing the Ecosystem: Q & A" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about how the loss of the prairie to farming and population growth impacts the ecosystem. It is followed by questions which require students to provide...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Acceleration
Acceleration, an increase in the rate of change, is occurring both in the Universe and in human culture on planet Earth. This article explains these fascinating changes.
Curated OER
Animated Map of Human Population
This animated map shows world population growth from the year 1 to 2020 A.D. Note the changing years as you observe the growth on a map of the world.
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: Demographic Transition
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the four stages of demographic transition.