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Elementary Workshops
Hands-on professional learning for today’s
global classroom
P opulation Education, a program of Population Connection, is
the only national program with a strong emphasis on
curriculum and professional development for K-12 educators
that focuses on human population. The program has developed
age appropriate curricula to complement students’ instruction in
science, social studies by exploring the connections between
human population trends and their impacts on natural resources,
environmental quality, and human well-being.

Population Education offers a wide range of custom professional

Popular Workshop Themes development workshops for educators in your school or district.
INTERDEPENDENCE IN NATURE: Our hands-on workshops show teachers interactive ways to
ecology, food webs, food chains, promote issue-based learning and critical thinking in the
equilibrium, and biodiversity classroom. Each workshop is led by a top-tier professional in your
area. Every participant receives curriculum resources aligned to
POPULATION TRENDS: state, national, Common Core, and Next Generation Science
crowding, birth and death rates, density,
and carrying capacity Standards.

HUMAN NEEDS AND WANTS: ecological

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footprints, resource consumption patterns,
and cause and effect relationships lementary workshops can be interdisciplinary or subject
specific. Our elementary curriculum connects students to
HUMAN IMPACT ON THE the world around them while building math, literacy, and critical
ENVIRONMENT:
land use, urbanization, agriculture, thinking skills. Students explore the fundamentals of environ-
pollution, and climate change mental science, ecology, and human geography. Our elementary
curriculum, Counting on People, is divided into eight thematic
STEWARDSHIP:
conservation, the importance of healthy units with over 40 classroom-ready lesson plans and activities.
ecosystems, and respect for the natural
environment

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP:
personal and collective responsibility, how
to work toward a sustainable planet, and
group problem solving
Pricing and Scheduling
Honorarium fee: $125.00/hour
Materials fee: 10.00/participant
Contact Leslie Lewis, Professional Development Coordinator:
llewis@populationconnection.org (202) 974-7716

*Note: Our goal is to share Population Education materials and resources with teachers and we can be
flexible with workshop lengths, materials fees, and travel expenses in order to meet your needs.

Skills for the Hands on Critical Real world 21st century

global citizen Experiences thinking skills problem solving solutions

2120 L Street NW - Suite 500 - Washington, DC 20037 - (202) 332-2200 - populationeducation.org