SIRikt 2014 International Conference

26th – 30th May 2014

SIRikt 2014 International Conference - 26th – 30th May 2014

Use of interactive population pyramid in a geography lesson

Tatjana Kikec, Šolski center Velenje

The activity in the Open Space will be based on an interactive population pyramid by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. The participants will use their own devices to open a web page of the statistical office, install a free plug-in and use the population pyramid. Alone or in pairs they will do a few simple worksheet tasks using the interactive pyramid, and then together verify the correctness of the results by displaying them on the population pyramid.

In the discussion, we will talk about the advantages and possible problems of the use of interactive population pyramid in comparison with the classical pyramid (e.g. the time that we used to spend for drawing population pyramids can be now dedicated to their interpretation …).