Graph showing China's population growth since 1960
“When you are one in a million in China, there are 1,300 people just like you” – Did You Know?
Purpose Statement: students will be creating a small poster that includes a graph, an image, writing and other design elements in order to analyze the demographics of modern day China.
Assignment
Due Friday May 14, 2010
Teacher Examples
Find Data
- Demographics of China (Wikipedia)
- Historic population growth (Wikipedia)
- CIA World Factbook
- World Bank Data
- Google Public Data Explorer
- US State Department data
- Gapminder (look for an “Indicator” you want, click “Visualize”, then find “China”).
Ideas
- Graph China’s population growth over time.
- Compare the population of China’s largest cities.
- Compare the population of China to other large countries, such as India and the United States.
- Graph the population density of several cities in China and compare to cities in the United States.
- Graph the major ethnic groups of China.
- Compare China’s fertility, birth or death rate to other countries.
- Compare education and literacy rates in China to other countries.
- Compare environmental conditions to other countries such as pollution and air quality.
- Compare economic conditions to other countries, such as employment rate or how much the average worker is paid per hour.
- Compare how much energy China uses compared to how much it produces.
- You are not limited to these suggestions. Be original!
