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Lessons Which Support the Minnesota Geography Standard--Spatial Organization: Population
 

This page shows links to MAGE lessons which support the MN Spatial Organization Standard: "The student will understand the regional distribution of the human population at local to global scales and its patterns of change."

Lessons may be viewed or downloaded from the table.

5: "That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity"
9: The Characteristics, Distribution, and Migration of Human Population on Earth’s Surface
 
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Spatial Organization: Populations

Benchmark 1 Students will describe the pattern of human population density in the United States and major regions of the world.

World population patterns

(density vs. distribution)

Grades 9-12
Population Density
 The lesson is designed to help students understand the difference between population density and population distribution. In addition, students will be able to identify world population patterns and the geographic factors that affect them.
Sue Anderson

Spatial Organization: Populations

Benchmark 2 Students will provide examples that illustrate the impact changing birth and death rates have on the growth of human population in the major regions of the world.

Population Growth

Grades 9-12
Whoa! Slow down—Some of you!
 Students will analyze demographic data from the Population Reference Bureau to determine which areas of the world contain the fastest and slowest growth rates. Students will write an editorial on the best way to control population.
Kelly Swanson

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Spatial Organization: Populations

Benchmark 3 Students will use population pyramids and birth and death rates to compare and contrast the characteristics of regional populations at various scales.

Population Pyramids

Grades9-12
Population Pyramids
This lesson is designed to teach students how to build and analyze population pyramids and examine changing birth and death rates and the impact this data has on a regions economic and political geography.
Kathryn Hartman

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Spatial Organization: Populations

4 Students will use the concepts of push and pull factors to explain the general patterns of human movement in the modern era, including international migration, migration within the United States and major migrations in other parts of the world

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