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View larger image President Calvin Coolidge greets the media, 1924 Photo Courtesy of the Library of Congress
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Mission US: For Crown or Colony?
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Mission US: Flight to Freedom
The Best Sites That Show Statistics By Reducing The World & The U.S. To 100 People
Reducing statistics to “if _________ were 100 people, then __________” can make them very accessible, engaging, and thought-provoking. For example, there’s the well-known “If Twitter Was 100 People” infographic. There are also several sites that use this “gimmick” to illustrate much more important data about the world around us. I thought they might make a useful “The Best…” list for English Language Learners and others.
Gender Inequality Index
The Gender Inequality Index (GII) reflects women’s disadvantage in three dimensions—reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market—for as many countries as data of reasonable quality allow. The index shows the loss in human development due to inequality between female and male achievements in these dimensions. It ranges from 0, which indicates that women and men fare equally, to 1, which indicates that women fare as poorly as possible in all measured dimensions.
Comment: 5 average rating | Comments (4) Last Updated: 8 March, 2013 Section: Resources Primary History - World War II Using rich resources that encourage children’s empathy skills can make all the difference in teaching about WWII. This collection has detailed lesson plans, sources of information, emotive images, audio interviews, film footage and display materials.
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Do you want to use Gapminder tools in your classroom? Participate in one of the upcoming webinars leads by Mr Bob Lang, a UK teacher willing to share his tips and tricks. Read more Featured examples of Gapminder in education Teachers TV: Looking at statistics with Year 8 students Thanks to: Bob Lang <p>[Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page]</p> 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.
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