Gapminder

My biggest problem as a teacher is I have a box full of geography stuff that I have torn out of papers and magazines with the intention of using them in a lesson, unfortunately I never seem to get around to it. That box has been calling to me for the last few weeks and so rather than ignoring it I decided to bite  the bullet, tidy it up and find homes for everything. A piece of paper fluttered out with a web address on it and rater than bin it I typed it in and rediscovered the fabulous Hans Rosling and his gapminder website. That was it, my intended housekeeping was abandoned a I lost myself in the beauty of the way in which statistics are represented. 

For Year 11 who are now hopefully in the throes of revision for their end of year exams this is a lifesaver for development and resources statistics.