Lesson

Title A Country’s Shape Is More Than Its Borders: Population Pyramids
Lesson Description  Demographics is the study of population characteristics. Population pyramids examine the age and gender characteristics of a country’s population. Understanding how to read and interpret a population pyramid will give students the opportunity to examine a country’s past, present, and implications for the future through its population.
Author Dennis Rees
Grade Level 6-8
Duration 1-2 class periods

 
National Geography Standards National Language Arts Standards
1, 4, 17, 18 1

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Teacher Instructions

Student Worksheets, Assessments, and Answer Keys

Student Work Sample

6 Traits Writing Rubric (simple, full)

Quicktime Movies of Population Pyramid Changes for Asian Countries Used in the Lesson:
     India
     Israel
     Japan

Animation of Population Pyramid Changes in the United States