1. Website & URL: U.S. Census Population Clock (http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html)

2. This site has two real time "clocks". One clock tracks the U.S. Population and the other, world population. Additionally, by clicking on each clock a page comes up which explains how the population is calculated.

3. I would use this in a World Cultures class.

4. Population is a topic in the introductory unit of the course before individual cultures are examined. The question always comes up: How many people are there in the United States? In the world? With this site I could tell the class at that given moment in time there are approximately…

5. Actually, this site while excellent would be a good reference while discussing the topic of population. Books can never be accurate, because their facts are static and population growth or decline is dynamic. We could ask for estimates of how much the population would grow in the U.S. and the world until the next class. Then we could check and note the real difference between our guesses and the actual growth. In a couple of days students ought to have an idea of the approximate growth of the country and the world daily. From that we could extrapolate out the growth by week, month, and year. We could even come up with a pretty good estimate of what the next census figures would show - just like the real census bureau.

6. Once we got a fix on the daily growth of the country, I might give an assignment to extrapolate the population growth by week, month, and year. Other than that, this activity would be incorporated as support/reference for a larger lesson on population growth and patterns.