Shock population figures
- What difficulties can you think of for a person emigrating
to another country?
- Brainstorm why you think the government collects data.
- Find out the population of each of the states and territories
of Australia
- When and why do you use prediction ?
- Rewrite this article by what you think are the most important
facts.
- Think of another heading for this article, why might you
change it ?
- From the last paragraph, draw a graph to show to which states
the recent arrivals went.
- What are the difficulties with the graph scale?
(Written by Deborah Westerhof, BTeach student, University of
Tasmania, 2001)
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