Using data on population, land area, and house size, students will investigate how much space is used by people in Texas compared to the population of the world, and how much space would be required to give everyone in the world the average American house. After reflection, they will compare this data to that from 1900 and 2000 to identify any trends.

Concepts

population density

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Additional Tags

average house size, land usage, spatial population distribution, spatial distribution of population

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)