Get Population Education resources for your AP classroom
Access everything from PopEd to support your APHG instruction, including:
- Watch videos and learn about some favorite Population Education lessons and tools for APHG courses.
- Gain access to the full library of classroom lesson plans, infographics, student readings, and more.
- Request a free classroom posters pack mailed to your school or home.
- Find links to digital tools, websites, lesson adaptations, and video competition from this page.
- Browse recommended lessons for APHG.
Favorite Resources for Unit 2: Population and Migration
Lessons included:
- World Population History website with the 5 minute "Dot Video" illustrating population change from 1 CE to 2050 CE, the interactive map, and additional free classroom lessons
- Power of the Pyramids (2.3)
- Food for Thought (2.2, 2.4, 2.8)
- A Woman's Place (2.8)
Favorite Resources across the CEDs
Lessons included:
- Where Do We Grow From Here? (2.1, 2.4)
- A Tale of Three Megacities (6.2, 6.5, 6.6)
- Growing Smarter (6.8, 6.11)
- Good News, Bad News (5.9, 5.10, 5.11)
Earth Matters curriculum:
Because you attended the APHG summer institute, you receive complimentary access to Population Education's online high school curriculum, Earth Matters. It includes over 45 lesson plans, more than a dozen student readings, 20 case studies, tons of infographics, and more. Your access does not expire.
If you've already created an account, login here now. If you haven't created account, follow these simple steps:
- Visit EarthMatters.PopulationEducation.org/register
- Enter the code: T3XV284
- Set-up your username and password
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Free posters for your classroom:
Enter your mailing address on the form below, and we'll mail you the following (at absolutely no cost to you!):
- World Population Map, population cartogram
- State of the Global Family timeline poster with infographics
- World Population Data Sheet, from the PRB
World Population History
Dot video, interactive map, and free lessons
Visit www.worldpopulationhistory.org to view the 5 minute "Dot Video" illustrating population change over time, dive deep into the dot data using the interactive map and timeline, and download free lesson plans.
World of 8 Billion
Student video competition, activism toolkit, and free lessons
Visit www.worldof8billion.org to learn more about PopEd's student competition. Students make a 1-minute video connecting population growth to a global challenge and propose a sustainable solution. One theme every year connects directly to APHG topics.
Engage in action using the activism toolkit: a collection of resources, links, and suggestions for your students to use to effect meaningful change in their community.
330 Million in the USA
Free resources on changing US demographics
Through lesson plans, student readings, and infographics, examine trends around the United States’ population growth and settlement patterns, Congressional representation, family size, education, health, transportation, immigration, gender roles, and environmental impact and policies. This collection includes Family Counts (2.4 and 2.8).
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Save a copy of all of PopEd resources to your computer
Click here to download a PDF with all of the links on this page. Save the PDF to your files for future access, so you have everything you need in one place, long after your Institute ends.
Virtual Learning Adaptations
Bring favorite PopEd lessons to your LMS
Find virtual adaptations of your favorite PopEd lessons in this Drive folder. Download copies to your LMS, make any changes you like, and share with students in your virtual classroom.
Food for Thought
Topics 2.4, 2.5, 2.8, 7.3
Acting as residents of five major world regions, students compare various statistics that affect people’s health and well-being.
Where Do We Grow From Here?
Topics 2.1, 2.4
Students model population growth projections from 1800 to 2100 to see where in the world population growth has and will be occurring.
Take the Online Graduate Course
Earn credit to deepen your knowledge of population topics
Want to acquire more student-centered learning strategies and activities to explore the impact of human population growth? Enroll in our graduate course and ear 45 clock hours and/or 3 graduate credits in a flexible online setting this summer. Read More
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