Students learn why the census makes a difference. In this U.S. Census lesson plan, students connect data and history in their study of previous population booms and analyze census data in order to make predictions about the future.

Students research coral reefs and identify their benefits to humans, threats to the reef, how to reduce and eliminate threats, and more. In this coral reef lesson plan, students research the reefs, and take a field trip to an aquarium.

Students explain population growth in Maryland and its relationship with age structure, household growth and consumption of land.

Pupils explore ecology and biodiversty. They use the wet-mount procedure to make several slides to view using the microscope and draw what they see.

Students create a Power Point presentation on a famous artist. In this research activity students are assigned an artist to present to their classmates. The presentation follows a format.

Students investigate population dynamics such as variation in density of females, composition of food sources an environmental factors such as light and temperature on Drosophila. They then relate their findings to human populations and...

This short but informative site covers the Honduran people, population, age structure, population growth rate, birth rate, death rate, migration rate, infant mortality, life expectancy and much more. Information current to 1999.

Review the online report of the natality and mortality rates in Spain. This site also contains easy access links to Spain's population structure, family model, women's new social role and many other pertinent content materials.

Through interactive activities, reading assignments, and offline assignments, students explore the dynamics of human population.

"Welcome to Puerto Rico" provides an extensively detailed page that describes the population density of Puerto Rico. Information is given about birth rates, death rates, and even cause of death percentages.

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.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the four stages of demographic transition.

Conservation success stories are now evident all over the world, attesting to the resilience that bird populations can exhibit when agents causing their declines are removed, and when birth and death rates come back into balance. Read...

This site provides data on life expectancy, total fertility rates, crude birth rate and death rates of all countries. There are also links to related information.

A short site dealing with the people of El Salvador. Gives population, growth rate, age structure, birth and death rates, ethnic divisions, religion, life expectancy, literacy rate, etc. Information from 1995.

This site provides brief factual statistics about the population of Venezuela from 2002 including the average age, birth and death rates of the people in addition to other general population statistics.

Includes data on general population, birth & death rate, age structure and other demographics, as well as land area, climate, religion, and more.

"Crude birth rates" for Bolivia as well as several other countries.

This article describes tools ecologists use to describe the present state of a population and predict its future growth.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how rates of birth, death, immigration, and emigration affect population growth.

[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...

Explore growth patterns in wildlife populations.

An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this instructional activity, they research health care services in Texas counties and compare...