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HUMAN POPULATION DYNAMICS USING ONLINE RESOURCES

HUMAN POPULATION DYNAMICS USING ONLINE RESOURCES. Darlene Oehlke , March 2013 Environmental Systems and Society and chemistry Instructor Nido de Aguilas International School. 7 billion reasons to study human population dynamics. Overview of Activities. Introduction to Human Population

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HUMAN POPULATION DYNAMICS USING ONLINE RESOURCES

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  1. HUMAN POPULATION DYNAMICS USING ONLINE RESOURCES Darlene Oehlke, March 2013 Environmental Systems and Society and chemistry Instructor Nido de Aguilas International School

  2. 7 billion reasons to study human population dynamics

  3. Overview of Activities • Introduction to Human Population • Age Sex Population Pyramids (2 activities) • Factors Affecting Total Fertility Rate Investigation • Human Fertility Practical Work • Resource Consumption Activities: • Energy Resource Consumption • Let Them Eat Cake: Population and GNI • Food for Thought: Ecological Footprint

  4. Introduction to Human Population Dynamics www.prb.org Students learn vocabulary Observe differences in demographic indicators in different countries Learn to use the data bases

  5. Introduction to Age Sex Population Pyramids Introductory activity – old fashioned paper and pencil pyramids Data from US Census Bureau

  6. Age Sex Population Pyramids and Demographic Indicators Investigation US Census Bureau www.prb.org

  7. Factors Affecting Fertility Investigation and Practical

  8. Energy Resource Consumption

  9. Let Them Eat Cake! Compare populations of regions to distribution of wealth. Data from Population Reference Bureau

  10. Food For Thought Resource consumption within regions including energy consumption, clean water available, food calories per person, carbon dioxide emissions, ecological footprint.. Visual demonstration of data using balloons, cups of water, jars of oil, bags of food…

  11. Gapminder World and Agriculture www.gapminder.org

  12. Great Resources Population Reference Bureau DataFinder www.prb.org US Census International Data Base www.census.gov CIA World Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ International Human Development Indicators http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/profiles/ International Energy Agency http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp Gapminder www.gapminder.org See website for more details…

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