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Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Crystal Ball Math: Predicting Population Growth

For Students 9th - 10th
In this environmental science fair project, students will learn some of the ways in which the population growth of animals is modeled, and then use the logistic model to determine how a population grows when it starts far below, at, or...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 12.5 Population Growth Limits

For Students 5th - 9th
Discover how ecosystems respond to population growth limits.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Agriculture and Human Population Growth Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
[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.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Biomes and Population Dynamics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson begins with a PowerPoint slideshow that covers important ecological concepts about biomes, limiting factors, carrying capacity, and population growth. Students will look at the population dynamics involved with the diversity...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Human Population Growth Web Quest

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a technology-based lesson plan that integrates science and math to investigate the dynamics of population growth.
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Limits to Population Growth

For Students 6th - 8th
Explore biotic and abiotic factors that can influence the growth of populations of organisms in this interactive tutorial.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 12.6 Human Population

For Students 5th - 9th
Understand stages of human population growth.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: It's Crowded in Here! A Study of Plant Population Density

For Students 3rd - 5th
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...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Human Geography: Population

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module for AP Human Geography course explores population, including factors affecting distribution and growth.
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Other

St. Olaf College: The Malthusian Model

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Is That Natural?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: African Lions: Modeling Populations

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn to distinguish between exponential and logistic growth of populations, identify carrying capacity, differentiate density-dependent and density-independent limiting factors, apply population models to data sets and determine...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F if Logistic Growth Model, Explicit Version

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this task, students are presented with a graph showing the growth of the U.S. population from 1790 to 1940 and are given the equation for a logistic function for it. They are asked to use the equation and the graph to find the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exponential Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These questions test knowledge of domain and range of exponential functions, properties of exponents, and population growth and compound interest modeled by exponential functions. Questions are true/false and multiple choice; solutions...
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Digital History

Digital History: The Growth of Cities

For Students 9th - 10th
Industrial growth brought the growth of where the industries were located. Read about some nothern cities that had a huge growth in population along with a growth of problems in sanitation, spread of disease, and crime.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Cities

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Bacteria Populations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task provides a real-world context for interpreting and solving exponential equations. Students are asked to examine the equations representing the growth of three colonies of the bacterium that causes pneumonia, each colony being...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers:world in the Balance: The Growing of America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the links among population growth, immigration, environment and support of the elderly in America. Conduct a role play and explore the options available to tackle problems caused by deomgraphic trends.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Worked Example: Problem Involving Definite Integral (Algebraic)

For Students 9th - 10th
Using definite integral to solve a word problem about the growth in the population of a town.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Diets Affect Earthworms and the Soil They Enrich

For Students 6th - 8th
In this environment-oriented experiment, you will mix it up with earthworms, soil, and various types of organic kitchen scraps. The basic idea is to set up small earthworm colonies to compost different types of food waste. You test the...
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BBC

Bbc: H2g2: The Neolithic Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
A helpful summation of the key features of the agriculture revolution of the Neolithic Age: population growth, specialization, trade, security, government, and disease.
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Other

Urbanization

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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University of Nebraska Omaha

University of Nebraska at Omaha: Carrying Capacity

For Students 9th - 10th
Read through some case studies, and study data that shows how wildlife populations react when they reach carrying capacity.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Survival of a Species

For Students 9th - 10th
Given scenarios, illustrations or descriptions, the student will describe how long-term survival of species is dependent on changing resource bases that are limited.

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