Population biology is one of my favorite topics in biology. I remember one of my freshman Biology professors many years ago making a very pointed comment about the effects of too rapid population growth on societies in developing countries (to the effect that those people reap the harvest of their behavior, but not stated so nicely). I remember how, as a Biology graduate student I failed to convince my peers, not even the environmental science students, that human population growth was an important concern in the biological science field.
The World Bank Group article laid out the facts very clearly. Some of the work sheets were a fun challenge. I could not run the program for the International Population Module. The Glencoe worksheets, the Lesson of the Kaibab, and the age structure charts were quite familiar to me. Looking through the various parts of this activity reminded me of how much I have forgotten about this topic that I have taught and which I like.
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