1. Are you typical….. Pre-thinking questions….
Is the typical person left or right handed?
How much money does the typical person make in a year?
What percentage of the world has a bank account and cell phone
4. Is the typical person male or female?
5. What is the average age of the typical person
What is the typical ethnic group?
How many gallons of water does the typical American use in a day?
Video -- Seven Billion: Are You Typical? -- National Geographic

2. Population and Point of View
Population Connection – Dot Video
Population Research Institute

3. Demographics Population density
Replacement Rate Population distribution
Fertility Rate million
Developed countries billion
Developing countries billion
Thomas Malthus billion
Carrying capacity billion
Hunger billion
Exponential growth billion
Pandemic billion
Black Death(Bubonic Plague) infant mortality
Industrial Revolution natural rate of increase
Quality of life zero population growth
Birth rate
Deathrate

4. What is the message and point of view of
the Dot video from Population Connection?
Dot Video

5. Watch the following video clips, take a few notes if
you need to in order to discuss or ask questions.
#1 Overpopulation: The Making of a Myth - YouTube #2
#3 Food: There's Lots Of It - YouTube

6. What is the point of view of the Population Research
Institute?
How does this point of view differ from Population
Connection?
Can you find any common ground in the two points of
view?
What do you think? What more would you need to know?
How do you think a person’s perspective would influence
their thoughts on population?

7. Use the vocabulary list you made at the beginning of
to answer the following question…..
Why should the average U.S. citizen as well as business,
community and world leaders understand
population trends?
Bonus: What happens every ten years in the
United States?