1. Go to www.gapminder.org and click on launch gapminder world.

2. Push the full screen tab in the upper right hand corner.

ANALYZING THE LAYOUT OF A GRAPH

3. Notice the labels on the X and Y access, record them

a. Record the X label______

b. Record the Y label______

4. What do the colors represent? Which ones=which color?

______

5. What do the sizes of the circles represent? (Hint, the answer is on the graph; look closely.)

Click PLAY in the left hand corner. Watch the graph in progress.

6. What trends do you notice overall happening in the graph as the years go by? (Watch/play a few times if needed)

______

7. Move the time slider to 1800

a. What nation had the lowest average income? ______Amount? ______

b. What nation had the lowest life expectancy? ______Age? ______

c. What nation had the highest average income? ______Amount? ______

d. What nation had the highest life expectancy? ______Age? ______

e. What was the average income in the United States? ______Life expectancy? ______

f. What is the difference in life expectancy between the highest and lowest? ______

g. What is the difference in income between the highest and lowest avg. income? ______

8. Move the slider to 1900

a. What nation had the lowest average income? ______Amount? ______b. What nation had the lowest life expectancy? ______Age? ______

c. What nation had the highest average income? ______Amount? ______

d. What nation had the highest life expectancy? ______Age? ______

e. What was the average income in the United States? ______Life expectancy? ______

f. What is the difference in life expectancy between the highest and lowest? ______

g. What is the difference in income between the highest and lowest avg. income? ______

9. Move the slider to 1950

a. What nation had the lowest average income? ______Amount? ______

b. What nation had the lowest life expectancy? ______Age? ______

c. What nation had the highest average income? ______Amount? ______

d. What nation had the highest life expectancy? ______Age? ______

e. What was the average income in the United States? ______Life expectancy? ______

f. What is the difference in life expectancy between the highest and lowest? ______

g. What is the difference in income between the highest and lowest avg. income? ______

10. Move the slider to 2010

a. What nation had the lowest average income? ______Amount? ______

b. What nation had the lowest life expectancy? ______Age? ______

c. What nation had the highest average income? ______Amount? ______

d. What nation had the highest life expectancy? ______Age? ______

e. What was the average income in the United States? ______Life expectancy? ______

f. What is the difference in life expectancy between the highest and lowest? ______

g. What is the difference in income between the highest and lowest avg. income? ______

h. How many countries of the world have a life expectancy of less than 60? ______

11. Click on the United States bubble. Push Play. Look at the population size bubble scale for the US in the bottom right. Record the US Population size every 20 years. (We will graph this later.)

1800 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 198 200 2010 0 0 USA Chin a India 12. Now do the same for China and India.

13. Click play for all 3, what differences do you notice in how the US, China, and India populations change over time?

______

14. Click “Deselect All” under the list of countries. Change the y-axis tab to “Children per woman”

What country has the lowest # of children per woman? ______How many? _____

What country has the highest # of children per woman? ______How many? _____

Track the number of children per woman in the US over time

1800____, 1850____, 1900____, 1950____, 2000____

Repeat this process, tracking the number of children per woman, for some other countries.

15. What connection do you notice between income and the number of children per woman? ______

16. Take some time to change the y-axis or x axis label by clicking and change the items being graphed. For example, CO2 emissions or under Energy tab-total energy use-(very impressive…), or Health tab-HIV, or bad teeth, or under Society-murder.

If time allows, grab some headphones and go back to Gapminder.org and click the videos tab. Watch a few of the presentations.