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ABACUS 01-SCES-20
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Objectives:
- Students will assess the impact of an ever-increasing human population on the biosphere: social, economic, political and religious issues, use and conservation of natural resources, destruction of habitat, endangered species.
Time Range:
2nd and 3rd Quarter
Suggested Teaching Strategies:
Students should learn the terminology associated with demographics and population. Social, economic, political and religious beliefs and how they impact population growth. Use the video "The People Bomb" to show population problem through out the world. As a follow up to the video, have students write an essay pinpointing a particular countries social, economic, political and religious beliefs. Students should learn classic population growth curves given unlimited resources and effects of diminishing resources on that population growth. An understanding of three different types of graphs related to populations: J - graph, S-graph, and histograms. On those graphs, they will understand lag phase, exponential growth, carrying capacity, equilibrium, and population crash.
Students should learn the impact increasing human population has on natural resources, destruction of habitat causing endangerment of other species.
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Revision Date:
June 2005
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