2040 - Talking About Transport

Australian Curriculum content description:

Years 5 & 6 Design and Technologies

• Examine how people in design and technologies occupations address competing considerations, including sustainability in the design of products, services, and environments for current and future use (ACTDEK019)
• Generate, develop and communicate design ideas and processes for audiences using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques (ACTDEP025)

Year 5 HASS (Optional)

• Develop appropriate questions to guide an inquiry about people, events, developments, places, systems and challenges (ACHASSI094)
• Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary sources and secondary sources (ACHASSI095)

Year 6 HASS (Optional)

• Develop appropriate questions to guide an inquiry about people, events, developments, places, systems and challenges (ACHASSI122)
• Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary sources and secondary sources (ACHASSI123)

Relevant parts of Years 5 & 6 Design and Technologies achievement standards: Students explain how social, ethical, technical and sustainability considerations influence the design of solutions to meet a range of present and future needs. Students generate and record design ideas for specified audiences using appropriate technical terms, and graphical and non-graphical representation techniques.

Relevant parts of Years 5 HASS (History) achievement standards: Students develop questions for a historical inquiry. They identify a range of sources and locate, collect and organise information related to this inquiry.

Relevant parts of Years 6 HASS (History) achievement standards: Students develop appropriate questions to frame a historical inquiry. They identify a range of primary and secondary sources and locate, collect, organise and categorise relevant information to answer inquiry questions.

Syllabus outcomes: ST3-14BE, ST3-15I, ST3-16P, HT3-5.

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.6., OI.8.

• Unit of work: 2040 – Integrated Unit – Years 5 & 6.
• Time required: 60+ mins
• Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – oversee activities and facilitate class discussions

To view our NZ Curriculum alignment, click here.

• Student Worksheets – one copy per student.
• A device capable of presenting a video to the class.
• Interview Factsheet – Optional.
• Sustainability Factsheet – Optional

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.