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Why Go to this Site : This site gives a
wonderful graphic depicting the population growth difference
between first and third world countries.
World
Population Trends
- Intended Audience: middle school and
above
- Why Go to this Site : This is another link
site. However, the United Nations council on population trends
publishes it. Great links!
International
Data Base
- Intended Audience: middle school or above
level
- Why Go to this Site : This is an excellent
site for researching socioeconomic information dealing with
populations.
POPClocks
- Intended Audience: middle school and
above
- Why Go to this Site : This site displays
population clocks for the United States and the World to the day.
Of course, they are estimations.
Logistic
Growth
- Intended Audience: middle school and
above
- Why Go to this Site : This has a good
explanation of exponential growth with excellent links to graphics
and graphs depicting exponential growth.
LAMARC-Likelihood
Analysis with Metropolis Algorithm using Random
Coalescence
- Intended Audience: high school and
above
- Why Go to this Site : This is a great site for
researching and doing the math for population size, growth rate,
and migration.
Exponential
Growth
- Intended Audience: sixth grade and
above
- Why Go to this Site : This site gives a good
set of graphics representing exponential growth. The graphs and
simulation should make this an easy site for almost anyone in the
upper grades.
Boom-or-bust
- Intended Audience: educators or people looking
for a great graphic
- Why Go to this Site : This is a graph
depicting the cycle of feast and famine and how it effects a
population cycle.
Population
Index-on the Web
- Intended Audience: high school and
above
- Why Go to this Site : This is an excellent
site to find recently published books, journal articles, working
papers, and other material on population topics. This is one of my
top recommended sites.
Population
Growth
- Intended Audience: educators
- Why Go to this Site : This is another site
which is good for educators as to give basic understanding of what
populations are and what it mean for exponential
growth.
United
Nations Populations Information Network (POPIN)
- Intended Audience: middle school and
above
- Why Go to this Site : This is an excellent
jumping off page for world information relating to human
populations around the world.
Miniunit
Zeta: Population Growth Curves
- Intended Audience: high school and
above
- Why Go to this Site : This site uses
population growth as a stepping stone of comparisons between a
heard of raindeer and humans. One can make inferences from this
comparison.
Population
Reference Bureau
- Intended Audience: middle school and
above
- Why Go to this Site : This is a good site for
understanding the importance of migration and cultural diversity
in the movement of populations.
U.S. Census
Bureau
- Intended Audience: high school and
above
- Why Go to this Site : Another good starting
point to reference various indicators and effects of populations,
primarily within the United States.
1999 United
States Population Data Sheet
- Intended Audience: high school and
above
- Why Go to this Site : This site gives very
interesting tables of comparisons within the United
States.
1999
United States Population Data Sheet
- Intended Audience: high school and
above
- Why Go to this Site : This is another very
interesting site for tables dealing with population in a
percentile breakdown.
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