:Population Change
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Approach:  Station Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus: Interpreting a bar graph 
Resources: Laptop computer with task software
648KB
Questions/instructions:

This activity is done on the computer. Click on the button that says Population Change.The computer will tell you what to do.

This graph shows places where the population has gone up and places where the population has gone down.

[Soundtrack to program gave instructions. The same instructions appeared, at the same time, in a text box at the bottom of the computer screen.]

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% responses
2003 ('99)
y4
y8
Click the name of the place where the population went up the most.
Tauranga
88 (89)
95 (97)
Click the name of the place where the population went down the most.
Invercargill
43 (46)
82 (75)
Click the names of the places where the population has not changed.
Napier, Gisborne, Feilding
16 (17)
54 (49)
By how much did Taupo’s population go up? Type your answer into the yellow box.
2%
63 (47)
87 (80)
Total score:
4
9 (12)
48 (42)
3
25 (17)
29 (28)
2
37 (35)
17 (20)
1
24 (31)
5 (10)
0
5 (5)
1 (0)
Commentary:
For year 4 and year 8 students there was no change between 1999 and 2003.
 
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