After playing the trading game in year 9 we have been reflecting on what we have learned. We used the excellent site
Gapminder to look at the real progress made by Bangladesh, Kenya, India, China, USA and Japan and we found that unlike our game where the poorest nations could sometimes overcome disadvantage real life less developed nations tended to stay poor.
We also looked at trends and patterns examining positive and negative correlations between different indicators some of you noticed for example that urbanisation seemed linked to incresed wealth. This led us on to the idea of cause and effect. One interesting trend was noticed by LOE3 who spotted that the number of children women had went down as more girls went to school.
So what do you think, is there a link? Is it a cause or effect and why do you think there is a link? We will discuss this in class or you could leave a comment. For those of you who we will be seeing for the last time this week, we wish you well for the future and remember to keep checking back here to find out whats going on at your old school. We'll be sad to see you go :-(
5 comments:
this is a fantastic resourcefull site it has geatfully help me in my development project and i did enjoy the game fling the teacher .............................................................................well done
gapminder is cool
by james and jack :)
very very nice site geography rocks wooooo
DJAH and TG
hello my name is aiden and i enjoyed this site it woz wiked
Gapminder is really cool and so is the worldometer
The whole site in general is cool.
Emily
p.s~ whats the point in putting your name as anonymous if you actually put your name in the comment? yes im talking to you jack and james :o)
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