september 30

Today's class focus was on the population pyramid. We watched a powerpoint that gave us all the informatíon ever on the pyramid. We talked about what the population pyramid shows us. Some of these things are: birth rate, death rate, population, etc. One thing it does not show us is life expectancy. Mr. Schick showed us the population pyramid for a bunch of different countries including Japan. Japan's population pyramid is basically a rectangle. There are very few people having kids, so there are very few kids. He showed us the population pyramid for the US. We saw that the year Mr. Schick was born was a big "baby boom" year. He also showed us the pyramid from when we were born, the one right now, and the estimated one for the year of 2050. I thought it was really cool to get to "see into the future".