A little experiment with Flourish from Kiln

How long will you live for ?

A visualisation by the ONS - useful for Year 12 Geographers who are exploring the idea of life expectancy...

You need Hans

The most engaging statistician you'll ever come across is Hans Rosling.
He founded the Gapminder Foundation.
http://www.gapminder.org/ is a tool I've used for many years....

Earlier this week, he presented a programme which you can still catch on the BBC iPlayer for a few more days.

Check out all the data that Hans used HERE - it's essential for anyone studying population or related topics... which means all geographers...

Here he is on Newsnight....


Of course, we'll soon be outnumbered by Lego figures....

Who wants to live forever ?

One of the topics I'll be teaching about with Year 7 is the issue of health in the UK.

There's a new website from Public Health England which I can see will form part of the teaching of this unit.

The LONGER LIVES website has gone live.

The website uses a 'traffic light' system to show the data relating to life expectancy.

There are quite a lot of variations across and within areas.
Can you identify and then explain them ?
This is what Year 7 will be thinking about as part of the unit...