APES Chapter 4 - Population
Lab
Isle Royale Population Study (PDF)
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Assignments
Population Bulletin (PDF)
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Chapter 4 (PowerPoint)
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Links
Information and Articles
The Habitable Planet: Population (if the textbook doesn’t make sense)
http://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/unit/text.php?unit=5&secNum=0
The Population Institute (great articles!)
http://www.populationinstitute.org/population-issues/
Demographic Transition
http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/geography/Demotrans/demtran.htm
Hunger and World Poverty
http://www.poverty.com/
Human Numbers Through Time
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/numbers.html
World Poverty Map
http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/regions/index.htm
Population and Energy Consumption (also look at the Midwest and US Situation)
http://worldpopulationbalance.org/pop/energy/
Global Issues: Population and Feeding the World
http://www.globalissues.org/article/200/population-and-feeding-the-world
Global Issues: Effects of Overconsumption and Increasing Populations
http://www.globalissues.org/article/216/effects-of-over-consumption-and-increasing-populations
Game: Be a Demographer (see how you would do…)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/demographer.html
World Clocks
Peter Russell World Clock
http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
World Clock 2008
http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf
Worldometer
http://www.worldometers.info/
Videos
YouTube: Population and Environment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJVMh2-5Lr0&feature=related
Jane Goodall - Viewpoint on Overpopulation and the Developing World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6JLvIxdbjQ
Demographic Transition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dK3mL35nkk
YouTube: People living in Africa with HIV/AIDS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzQQiCPWSYA
YouTube: Poverty In India
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru4U_r95sfg&feature=related
YouTube: Status of education of women in S. Africa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCYK9fJ_ozo
YouTube: Yacinta's Story: 'The lengths I went to get an education'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kHrEjKPuhg&feature=related
BBc new report: China’s One Child Policy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkOJXOjNDo&feature=related
Night Lights on Earth (check out N. Korea)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVC2domsLkY&feature=related
Just for fun
SimCity
http://simcity.ea.com/play/simcity_classic.php
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