Population lessons and resources for geography students

Explore a wide range of lessons, activities, revision resources, worksheets, and bundles to support KS3 and KS4 geography teachers in delivering engaging content on population and migration

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Lesson plans, activities, revision material, and bundles to support your teaching of population and migration

To help you develop your lower and upper secondary geography students' understanding of how and why population distribution differs and changes, as well as the impact this can have around the world, we have put together a selection of hand-picked population resources, including lessons, activities, and revision materials.

Lesson resources and activities for teaching population 

Geography Population and Migration Worksheets
claire1580

Geography Population and Migration Worksheets

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**Overview** This resource is a comprehensive set of 6 downloadable worksheets designed to reinforce and enhance students' knowledge of Geography Population and Migration topics. **Worksheet Structure** It includes 6 worksheets, one for each of the following topics: Population Distribution Populati...
Population Pyramids
James Raptor

Population Pyramids

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Lesson 4: Population pyramids Students will come away understanding what population pyramids are and how they show the changes in a countries demographics. They will be able to make links to the DTM and create their own using the given data. High level of literacy focus, challenging activities and...
Population Pyramid drawing activity 2023
lrabbetts

Population Pyramid drawing activity 2023

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Activity for pupils to draw and compare population pyramids for The Gambia and The UK, using 2023 data. There is a outline set of axes with an example plot on it for lower ability pupils and a labelling activity to pupils to demonstrate their ability to interpret the graphs. In addition there is a v...
Population
Jacob Spong

Population

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IGCSE Cambridge Theme 1: Population & Settlement Population 1: How has the World s Population changed in the last few hundred years? Lesson 1 FREE: This SoW is designed in detail and is both differentiated and engaging and allows you to move pupils through content efficiently. As a r...

Revision resources for teaching population 

Population Knowledge Organiser
ellieeglynn

Population Knowledge Organiser

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This is a revision sheet for the topic of population. I use this with KS3 as a revision sheet at the end of the topic, or I give it to them at the beginning so they can see what we will be covering. The topics on the sheet include: Causes of population growth Birth rates Death rates Sparse and den...
Japan - ageing population
icgeography

Japan - ageing population

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A simple worksheet which introduced the dependency ratio and gets students thinking about the problems in Japan resulting form an ageing population. As a follow up activity get students to think about and research the opportunities.
Population - Revision Guide IGCSE
thisisgeography

Population - Revision Guide IGCSE

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A comprehensive revision guide for the IGCSE topic Population. 36 pages covering all aspects of the module including migration, population structure and refugees. This is the Word and PDF version of the revision guide.
Population Revision Booklet
Knowledge_Switch

Population Revision Booklet

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This booklet has 40 pages of revision tasks relating to the population content in the AQA geography A spec. It goes through all of the required processes and uses relevant case studies.