On January 10, I learned how to use the Gapminder website. I had only seen it used in lessons in biology and geography classes last year. I loved it then and was so excited to see it again and to begin to learn how to use it.
I still have questions about how to use it to show historical population growth and estimations for future population growth in various places. I saw this in a class in the past, but it was shown as sort of pyramid and hourglass shapes that moved over time, but I can't remember if this was on Gapminder or something else.
The implications of Gapminder in classrooms is that since it is visually stimulating, I think students will be easily drawn to it and will be motivated and able to learn how to use it fairly quickly. For me, just watching the colored bubbles bounce around brought many questions to mind and it was fun to find the answers....they kept leading to new questions. Great for inquiry lessons.
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