2040 - Writing the Future

2040 - Writing the Future

Lesson 3 of 6 in this unit

  • Secondary
  • Year 9 - 10
  • English
  • Persuasive writing
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Sustainability
  • ...

Lesson summary

In this lesson, students will engage in solutions-focused thinking about the challenge of climate change. Students will engage with visions of 2040 through film clips and discussion. Students will synthesise research with their own ideas to create a storyboard about their vision of 2040. This storyboard can be used to plan a variety of texts, depending upon your class priorities.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • understand that solutions to climate change already exist
  • consider how these solutions might affect their lives and the lives of others
  • use facts as creative prompts for imaginative writing

Success criteria:

Students can...

  • identify solutions explored in a video
  • undertake research to explore solutions
  • elaborate on facts provided to create an imaginative futuristic text

Lesson guides and printables

Lesson Plan
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Lesson details

Curriculum mapping

  • Unit of work: 2040 – English – Years 7 to 10
  • Time required: 60 mins
  • Level of teacher scaffolding: Low – students mostly conduct work in partners or follow worksheet

To view our Australian Curriculum alignment, click here.

To view our NZ Curriculum alignment, click here.

Resources required

  • Student Worksheets – one copy per student
  • Device capable of presenting a video to the class
  • Student devices with internet access. Sticky notes or class access to online collaborative documents
  • Butcher’s paper or A3 paper
  • Markers
  • Storyboard Template (optional)

Additional info

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 AustraliaShark Island InstituteDocumentary Australia FoundationThe Caledonia Foundation and our philanthropic partners in the development of these teaching resources.

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