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Population Education, a program of Population Connection, is the only national program with a strong emphasis on curriculum resources and professional development for K-12 educators that focuses on human population issues.
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Population Education provides resources for teaching about human population growth and its effects on the environment and human well-being. Download innovative, hands-on lesson plans to incorporate global citizenship and sustainability themes into K-12 classrooms and for distance learning. Request professional development workshops (or virtual workshops through webinars) for school/district or university pre-service classes, and keep up on global issues and educational trends with our PopEd blog
This site is home to the annual World of 7 Billion student video contest. The contest challenges students in grades 6-12 to connect population growth to one other global challenge. Stream videos from past winners, and download free lesson plans that focus on contest topics. This site also includes a Teen Activism Toolkit, to help students with civic engagement around their video topics.
Learn about the impact of population growth and important milestones in human history via the World Population “dot” video (available in 6 languages and CC), interactive population map, thematic timeline and population projections. Download student readings and classroom lessons to explore trends in population, the environment and human well-being over the past 2000 years.