Around the world

Our teaching materials are being used in classrooms around the world. Below are some examples of students and teachers sharing their experiences with our materials and tools. 

We always love to hear from those who have been using Gapminder materials in class. Please contact us on [email protected] if you’d like to tell us your story.

In English

Amazing films made by students about Factfulness!

Here is a class assignment developed by Matt Cone at Carrboro High School in North Carolina, US. The students have read Factfulness and in groups they made their own films discussing the book. The assignment instructions can be found here.

Enjoy the final videos below. Thanks Matt for sharing your work with us!

Gap instinct

CHSJaguars#1

CHSJaguars#2

Negativity instinct

CHSJaguars#3

CHSJaguars#4

CHSJaguars#5

CHSJaguars#6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fMPBQDglD0&feature=youtu.be

Single perspective

CHSJaguars#7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzP5UBWg9c8&feature=youtu.be

CHSJaguars#8

Single perspective

CHSJaguars#9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiMjZqHGQI4&feature=youtu.be

Blame instinct

CHSJaguars#10

CHSJaguars#11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YPBtzmVA4A&feature=youtu.be

4 levels

CHSJaguars#12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htki1mDC1ME&t=1s

CHSJaguars#13

 

 

 

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10MkIDQ9ztL8JnpDggkOpKo4C-ELUFeeJ

 

CHSJaguars#14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug4RU-Cujjo

World is improving

CHSJaguars#15

CHSJaguars#16

Separating truth from fiction

CHSJaguars#17


Teaching Dollar Street in Data Science Classes

Thanks to: Jessie Jiang and Create&Learn


Looking at statistics with year-8 students

Thanks to: Bob Lang


Gapminder and Worldmapper

Geography for a changing world resources from the Geographical Association, UK.

Thanks to: Paula Cooper


Gapminder course at the NYC iSchool

An experimental high school course that challenges 10th and 11th grade students to use a quantitive lens to analyze the last 200 years of global history.

Thanks to: Jesse Spevack


Further resources

In Data Sciences Classes, by Create & Learn

Geographies of Human Wellbeing, by Timonthy McNamara

Dollar Street Assignment, by Erik Schneiders

Digital geography blog: Gapminder – Some teaching resources