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	Quick Geography Activities
	These activities are free and involve students investigating various aspects of Australia's population. You can view all the activities as webpages or download Word (.doc) files and modify them to suit your needs.

ID	Title	Suggested Level	Overview

GeoQ_01	What is Australia's population?	Years 6–8	This activity uses the Australian population clock on the home page of the ABS website and looks at how the Australian population grows.

GeoQ_02	Comparing Indigenous and Non–Indigenous population pyramids	Years 5–7	This activity compares the Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous population pyramids. The extension activity makes a comparison with neighbouring countries.

GeoQ_03	Where do Australians come from?	Years 5–7	This activity looks at the regions of birth for Australians in 1999 and 2009.

GeoQ_04	Which countries do Australians come from?	Years 5–7	This activity places the main countries of birth of Australia's population on a world map and researches information about them to feed into a class quiz.

GeoQ_05	How diverse is the Australian community?	Year 7	This activity explores the connection between country of birth, language and religion for Australia.

GeoQ_06A	Draw a population pyramid for Australia	Years 7–8	The activity provides recent statistics on the age and sex of the Australian population as the basis for the construction of a population pyramid using either a diagram provided or graph paper.

GeoQ_06B	Draw a population pyramid using Excel	Years 7–8	The activity provides recent statistics on the age and sex of the Australian population as the basis for the construction of a population pyramid using Excel.

GeoQ_07	How has Australia's population structure changed over time?	Years 7–10	This activity illustrates the changes to the Australian population structure between 1901 and 2006.

GeoQ_08	What is the distribution of population in Australia?	Years 8–10	This activity looks at the distribution of population through the size and location of rural and urban localities.

GeoQ_09	What is the best way to represent the distribution of population in Australia?	Years 8–10	This activity asks students to compare a dot distribution with a choropleth map to represent the distribution of population in Australia.

GeoQ_10	What is the distribution of the Indigenous Population in Australia?	Years 8–10	This activity investigates the distribution of population of Indigenous Australians.

GeoQ_11	Which State or Territory is this?	Years 8–11	This activity provides a population pyramid for Australia's States and Territories. The students are asked to identify each pyramid and recognise some of their characteristics.

GeoQ_12	Population Change: Growth and Decline	Years 8–12	This activity investigates natural increase of population in Australia's States and Territories. Students map the highest and lowest increases, compare their distribution and consider how communities plan for these changes.

This page last updated 9 March 2012

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