2040 - Fact-based Dreams For The Future

2040 - Fact-based Dreams For The Future

  • Secondary
  • Year 9 - 10
  • English
  • Technology
  • Information and Communication Technologies
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Sustainability
  • ...

Lesson summary

Dreaming about solutions for climate change may seem pointless – where is a dream going to get us? But what if you are doing fact-based dreaming? In this activity you will explore some of the existing and emerging solutions to climate change and use these to generate your own fact-based dreams for the future. 

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Curriculum connections: English, LiteracyCritical and Creative ThinkingICT Capability

Time required: 40 minutes 

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2040 is an innovative feature documentary that looks to the future, but is vitally important NOW! Director Damon Gameau embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream. 

In Australia: Order the Schools Version of the 2040 DVD. The Schools Version includes an educational license and is for Australian primary and secondary schools that wish to utilise the film as a learning tool or host free on-site screenings for the school community.

In New Zealand: Order the Schools Version of the 2040 DVD. The Schools Version includes an educational license and is for New Zealand primary and secondary schools that wish to utilise the film as a learning tool or host free on-site screenings for the school community.

If you are teaching in either New Zealand or Australia, you can now organise a virtual screening of the film for your class. To enquire about this option, simply email schools@whatsyour2040.com and the 2040 team will help you set this up! If you have already bought a DVD of the film and you have a ClickView account, you can email the team for permission to upload the film to your account to make it more easily accessible for your teachers and students.

Cool Australia, GoodThing Productions and Regen Pictures would like to acknowledge the generous contributions of Good Pitch AustraliaShark Island InstituteDocumentary Australia FoundationThe Caledonia Foundation and our philanthropic partners in the development of these teaching resources.

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