Futures Thinking Teachers pack

This free resource supports teachers and learners to develop approaches to exploring the future that are not about making predictions, but about considering possible, probable and preferable futures in order to support action and decision making in the present.

Education is about the future. Educators aim to prepare young people for the future and to support them to fully participate in all aspects of civic, cultural, social, intellectual and economic life. It is therefore important for young people to be given opportunities to think carefully about that future and their role in it.

The Futures Thinking Teachers Pack supports teachers and learners to develop approaches to exploring the future that are not about making predictions, but about considering possible, probable and preferable futures in order to support action and decision making in the present.

The pack, which is closely linked to National Curriculum requirements, engages Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 students in grounded inquiry into current trends and possible futures. The activities in the pack encourage students to critically examine their place in the world, the structures and features that bring about the societies they live in, their own beliefs and their agency in shaping their preferable future.

About the teacher pack

15 classroom activities

• Designed to be adaptable for KS3 and KS4
• Non-sequential and can be used as standalone resources
• Can be grouped by 4 subject areas: geography, English, PSHE, citizenship
• Cross-curricular activities can be grouped together for an off-timetable/collapse ‘Futures Day’.

Resources

• Central resources: three future worlds webcasts, future worlds - in brief, future worlds summarised and the be prepared - current trends document
• Resources to support each activity
• All resources can be used online or downloaded to be used offline.

Watch the future worlds webcasts

Asher:

Cheryl:

Jake:

Jay:

Nelly:

Pax:

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