2040 - Applying Point of View

Australian Curriculum content description:

Year 7 English

• Identify and discuss main ideas, concepts and points of view in spoken texts to evaluate qualities, for example the strength of an argument or the lyrical power of a poetic rendition (ACELY1719)

Year 8 English

• Create literary texts that draw upon text structures and language features of other texts for particular purposes and effects (ACELT1632)

Relevant parts of Year 7 achievement standards: Students understand how the selection of a variety of language features can influence an audience.

Relevant parts of Year 8 achievement standards:

• Students explain how language features, images and vocabulary are used to represent different ideas and issues in texts. They listen for and identify different emphases in texts, using that understanding to elaborate on discussions.

Syllabus outcomes: EN4-1A, EN4-4B

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Unit of work: 2040 – English – Years 7 to 10

Time required: 70 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion and guide students in activities

To view our NZ Curriculum alignment, click here.

• Student Worksheets – one copy per student
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Device capable of creating audio-visual recordings, such as an iPad or camera
• Comic strip template (optional) – one copy per student

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.org, GoodThing Productions and Regen Pictures would like to acknowledge the generous contributions of Good Pitch Australia, Shark Island Institute, Documentary Australia Foundation, The Caledonia Foundation and our philanthropic partners in the development of these teaching resources.