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Mapping people with GIS: census choropleth maps

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  • 32 marks
  • about 32 minutes
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Find out what a census is and how a GIS turns census numbers into a shaded map. You will work out population density for areas of England and Wales, build a choropleth map and describe its pattern.

14 slides.

Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. A GIS stores a map in layers
  5. I Do
  6. The census data set: ten areas
  7. Hinge Check
  8. We Do
  9. Build the choropleth map
  10. Describe the pattern using TEA
  11. Self-Check
  12. Homework
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