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Population pyramids

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  • 31 marks
  • about 30 minutes
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Which of these is shown by a population pyramid?

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About this resource

Learn to read, plot and compare population pyramids, and use their shapes to explain what they show about births, deaths and how long people live.

14 slides.

Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Reading the UK pyramid, 2024
  5. Reading the Niger pyramid, 2024
  6. I Do
  7. Hinge Check
  8. We Do
  9. Task — Compare the two pyramids using three pairs of figures
  10. Task — Explain what the pyramid shapes show
  11. Self-Check
  12. Homework
Unit bundlePeople, migration and cities
Part of: People, migration and cities: the whole unitEvery resource in the unit in one zip.

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