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Framework
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Topic outline
Click the linked topics below for additional
resources
| Human
Systems |
| 1. Human well-being and environmental
quality |
a. Interdependence
b. Sustainability |
| 2. Consumption and natural resources |
a. Population -
world population,
exponential growth,
birth/death rate,
age
structure, migration,
historical patterns |
| 3. Effects of natural resource
consumption |
a. Social development - affluence,
health,
culture, economic growth
b. Resource distribution - food/water
distribution, nourishment, wealth gap
c. Waste - reduce, reuse,
recycle, refuse;
toxic waste; pollution
d. Cultural diversity threats
e. Variability - socioeconomic status, race,
culture, ethnicity, etc. |
| 4. Addressing effects |
a. Education -
empowerment of women,
needs hierarchy
b. Political action -
laws,
lobbying,
environmental justice
c. Ecomanagement - trail building,
recycling,
ecosystem restoration
d. Legal action - lawsuits, law enforcement
e. Lifestyle choices - ecological footprint,
consumer choices
f. Community involvement -
service learning,
ecomunicipalities |
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RESOURCES
| Consumption and natural resources - Population |
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6 Billion Human
Beings (web site and activity)
Source:
Harv Hayden,
Wisconsin Rapids School District
Web site
Activity (MS Word)
This European web site provides a good
overview of human population numbers, trends, and issues. The
worksheet helps students explore the site. |
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Food for Thought (activity)
Source:
Population Connection
Web link
In this activity students are grouped to simulate the
distribution of people into five world regions and then compare
resource use, growth rate, birth rates, death rates. The teacher
distributes items to each region to represent energy
consumption, food, wealth, etc. |
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Human Population (video)
Source:
Population Connection
DVD: $20 from
Population Connection
Borrow from
WCEE EE Resources Library
This short (~7 minute) video
provides a great visual of the human population explosion that
is currently occurring. The video displays a world map and time
ticks away in years on the bottom of the screen. When 1 million
people are in an area a dot will appear. You can see how slowly
the human population grew at first and how war and disease
affect population (historical references are noted on the
bottom) and how an explosion of dots appear in recent years. |
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Human Population Growth Over Time (reading
and questions)
Source:
Matt Tiller,
Verona Area High School and Population Reference Bureau
Handout (MS Word)
Web site
A
summary of information from the Population Reference Bureau in
an easy to read document that includes review questions. The
reading and questions are useful to introduce basic vocabulary
around human population growth. Topics include: growth and
distribution, future growth, patterns of change, and world
urbanization. |
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