Helps students get to grips with various data sources about the development gap

1. Follow the webquest to get to grips with the
development gap

2.  Click on http://www.gapminder.org/
 Then Gapminder World and watch the “how to
use" Video tutorial, it won’t take long.
 Then back to Gapminder World and select
some of the Superpowers and Emerging
superpowers (it’s easiest to view if you choose
different coloured ones). Click Play and watch
the historical change in life expectancy and
GDP per capita.
 When it has finished “Print screen” and paste
into “Paint”. Select the graph (making sure
you’ve included the axes labels so you know
what it is!) Copy into a new Word Document
headed “Measuring Development and the
Development Gap”

3.  Cancel the selected countries (click on them
again)
 Then pick some of the poorer and middle
income countries from the graph (move
your mouse around to identify countries)
and select some of them (click on the
circle), then press play again.
 Do the same again, print screen, paste to
paint and copy into the word document.
 You should now have two contrasting
graphs.

4.  Go to the mapped data
http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/map/
 Under composite data select HDI and copy
the map into your document.
 Describe the pattern.

5.  Find out about the Gender Inequality Index at
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/gii/ . Right
click on the graph to copy it into your word
document then use the draw tools to identify
what each of the components is about.
 Make a note of where is particularly good/bad

6.  http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/ihdi/
 What is Inequality adjusted HDI? Write a
simple explanation
 Play around with the interactive graph by
picking some countries to see how their HDI
is affected by inequality, then pick one, print
screen it, paste into paint, trim and paste into
your document.