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Here are the teacher pack items for The Growing World Population:
Overview In this experience, students study a chart of years in which world population added another billion and predict when the population will reach nine billion. Then they review terminology related to population and compare population density of different countries. Next they learn about population pyramids and draw conclusions from a comparison of pyramids for world population in 1950 and 2023. Finally they read about China’s one-child policy, summarizing the unintended consequences and drawing population pyramids for the Chinese population before the policy and after it was ended. Objectives
Scientists estimate that planet Earth is home to almost nine million species of plants and animals. They also estimate that there are twenty quadrillion ants—a quadrillion is a 1 with 15 zeros. That’s a lot of life. And there are also over eight billion human beings. In this experience you will learn about concepts relating to this human population.
Objectives
Watch the movie of world population: Human Population Through Time.
Predict in what year the world population will reach 9 billion.
According to the United Nations data, the world population is most likely to reach 9 billion in the year 2037. You can display a graph to show students that this is a probability, not a certainty.
