On October 30th, our APES class took a small field trip to a local cemetery so we could gather data on the local population in 1950. This was part of our local population pyramid activity.
To start the activity our class divided up into groups and went to different parts of the cemetery. We then started to find gravestones with people who were born on or before 1950 and still alive that same year. We then recorded the age of the person on our data table.
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| A group gathering data |
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| Headstones in the cemetery |
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| One of the old headstones in the cemetery. |
When we got back we added each groups data and began the process of finding the percentage for each age groups and gender. After finding the percentages, each student began to graph the data.
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| The population pyramid |
By looking at the graph, we were able to tell that there was a baby boom in the area because of the large percentage of children in the pre-reproductive stage. Also, we could tell that the local area was developed at that time because the graph is mostly bullet-shaped which is typical of a developed country or area.
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