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Provided by: Population Education |Published on: March 25, 2025
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Synopsis

  • This lesson from Population Education includes two activities that illustrate the importance of cooperation and collaboration for managing resources.
  • Students will play a game to demonstrate the "Tragedy of the Commons," connecting the game to the use of renewable resources, and play a game to demonstrate how all people benefit from collaboration.
  • The resource also includes possible game layouts, an assessment, an infographic, and a video demonstrating the activities.
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Subjects: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences, Civics
Authors: Population Education
Region: Global
Languages: English

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Population Education
Population Education provides K-12 teachers with innovative, hands-on lesson plans and professional development to teach about human population growth and its effects on the environment and human well-being. Human population has grown from 1 billion to 8 billion in just over 200 years, so it is critical to examine human impacts on wildlife, climate, and natural resources while working toward equality and justice for the world’s people. Through memorable, standards-aligned classroom activities like simulations, cooperative challenges, and debate, Population Education inspires students to tackle a variety of real-world problems and to become positively engaged in their communities as the next generation of leaders and policy makers.

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