Worldview Upgrader Course

I'd missed the arrival of this since I last checked the website, but am thinking of using it at the start of the year with my groups.

It has a series of short videos connected to the Gapminder quiz on the SDGs. 

Students are asked to take the test and then the videos take them through the reasons why they might be wrong about their thinking and they repeat the test. This is something I've done for quite a few years and it works well.

The videos can all be found on VIMEO.

The quizzes are on the Gapminder website, although at the time of posting the site is down for scheduled maintenance. Hopefully it will be back in a week's time as I intended using the quiz with students as part of our introduction to Year 8.

Dollar Street

We watched the first half of this TED talk this week... worth watching the rest.

Factfulness - now on Twitter

Follow the account here. An essential account to follow for Geographers. 
We use the book during our Year 8 teaching.

Follow @factfulness! pic.twitter.com/pOsZjEmdlQ

— Factfulness (@factfulness) June 27, 2019

Dollar Street - the TED talk

We've been using Dollar Street with Year 7 and Year 8 groups to explore the inequalities in access to food and other items in homes with differing levels of income.
The students have been fascinated by the images that Dollar Street offers, and we have been asking them to explore the 'stuff' that is owned by the families and whether there are thresholds to owning an object such as a washing machine (see the Hans Rosling video on this topic to see how important it is)




I've put together a resource for Geography teachers (and others) on how to use Dollar Street in the classroom.
It's not finished yet, but is a collaborative Google Drive document which will hopefully grow...
You're very welcome to add your own ideas to this document...
It's embedded below for your interest...



Following on from that, Anna from Gapminder gave a TED Talk a while ago, and that is now available to view.