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Gapminder: Unveiling the Beauty of Statistics for a Fact Based World View

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Gapminder collects hundreds of statistics related to global economic, health, and social development and analyzes the relationships between them across different countries and time (a few indicators go back to 1800).
eBook
Robert Schenk, PhD

Cyber Economics: Measuring Income Distribution

For Students 9th - 10th
E learning text offers information on measuring income distribution with the Lorenz Curve. Site presents charts and data for one to use in order to construct or analyze a Lorenz Curve.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Renewable Energy Living Lab: Smart Solar

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students use real-world data to evaluate whether solar power is a viable energy alternative for several cities in different parts of the U.S. Working in small groups, they examine maps and make calculations using NREL/US DOE data from...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 5: How Well Gdp Measures the Well Being of Society

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to discuss how productivity influences the standard of living, explain the limitations of GDP as a measure of the standard of living, and analyze the relationship between GDP data and...