TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Population Growth Curves
Using Avida-ED freeware, students control a few factors in an environment populated with digital organisms, and then compare how changing these factors affects population growth. They experiment by altering the environment size (similar...
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Population Growth
Students control the environments in four different scenarios to discover how any changes might affect populations. The different simulations include microorganisms, rabbits, foxes, and other organisms.
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.
Other
Texas Population Growth, Projections, and Implications [Pdf]
A report analyzing the population changes that have occurred in Texas since the middle of the 20th century, and the expected projections for the future. It breaks the numbers down by race and ethnicity to show that Hispanics will...
US Census Bureau
Population Pyramids
Visual representations of population distribution by age and sex for any country.
US Census Bureau
U.s. Census Bureau: Population Change and Distribution [Pdf]
This U.S. Census Web site gives current and past information on population changes and distribution. Must have an Adobe Reader to access.
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...
Pew Research Center
Pew Hispanic Center: Interactive Map: Where Latinos Live in the United States
Detailed population maps graphically demonstrate that changing demographics of the Hispanic population in the United States from 1980 to 2007.
Geographypods
Geographypods: Patterns and Change: Patterns in Resource Consumption
This collection of three learning modules looks at issues related to resource consumption. It examines theories about how population size affects consumption, the changing patterns of energy consumption, and ways to minimize consumption....
US Census Bureau
U.s. Census Bureau: Population Clocks
This U.S. Census Bureau Web site has two population clocks with notes available. One clock shows the population increase for the United States. The other shows the world population increase.
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...
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.
Council for Economic Education
Econedlink: Economic Growth Video and Quiz
This video teaches the concept of Economic Growth. Economic growth refers to the ability of the economy to increase its total real output or real GDP, or its real output per person. The website contains an interactive quiz and links for...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today Population on the Move
In this activity students will determine the rate of change (slope) & build a linear model (y = mx + b) from this data. The model will be used to make a prediction about the future growth of the population of the U.S. if the current...
Ohio State University
Ohio State University: The Data Center
This site contains publications about the status of Ohio, population change, and current trends.
Ohio State University
Ohio State University: The Data Center
This site contains publications about the status of Ohio, population change, and current trends.
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Cities and Towns in Texas [Pdf]
An activity guide where learners refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, they investigate changes in population for different Texas counties, and the...
Other
Eh.net Encyclopedia: The u.s.economy in the 1920s
A comprehensive look at the economic growth in the U.S. in the 1920s. Provides statistical information on national product, income and prices, population and labor, agriculture, productivity, coal and petroleum, energy and...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Civil Environmental: Ecology I: The Earth System
College-level online course highlighting the fundamentals of ecology. Course topics include coevolution of the biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere; photosynthesis and respiration; and the carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles....
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: This Threshold Today
Use the Internet to search for news stories about the Modern Revolution and discuss the provided questions. Helpful links are provided to get you started.
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.
PBS
Wgbh/pbs: Westward Expansion 1860 1890
Many changes across the country during the westward expansion were features that could be captured on a map. Review this map and select characteristics to be illustrated. Characteristics such as population, major cities, railroads, and...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Confliction Selection Pressures
Investigate how selection pressures and natural selection influence populations growth with this computer model. Understand how a population changes when selection pressures are in conflict. Perform the virtual lab to see what happens to...