Gapminder It is a non-profit foundation based in Stockholm. Their greatest asset is that they have a large amount of data and statistical series related aspects cheap, demographic Y social of all the world. The series reported are related to the UN Millennium Goals. The information can be enjoyed in the browser but can also be downloaded excel. Although most of the series are only available from some point in the second half of the 20th century, the data is very interesting and useful for understanding and knowing more about current and past reality.
Within its web page you can find and use the powerful graphic tool which is tremendously visual and allows different types of numerical data to be analyzed in the form of a temporal sequence It also has a special area for teachers what includes resources and guides to take advantage of the knowledge that is made available to everyone. In my opinion it is essential that our students are able to interpret series of numerical data and graphical representations and these resources offer information to encourage you to understand reality.
The practical applications of Gapminder are very high and many school subjects can also be used: maths (graphs, proportions, percentages, scales, fractions, projections, etc.), plastic to work map representation, history to explain and know the economic situation of the countries of the world, language, to explain how the graphics are interpreted and generate debates, and many more pedagogical utilities.
In Gapminder there are videos of Hans Rossling, co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation, which makes presentations passionate and you will be extraordinary, in English, with the main conclusions. I think they are very interesting and can be used for children to learn to have critical vision.
Also in the Observatory of Health Inequalities have collected Spain data and they are publishing them using the Gapminder technique to present them. Among the objectives of this Observatory are to create a virtual information service, in which information and documentation on health inequalities is collected, systematized and transmitted, mainly referring to Spain and the autonomous communities.
