Middle School - Future Trends
Information related to social, economic, and technological changes and to the individual's need to adapt to those changes
Learner Goal
Gain knowledge of the skills necessary to adapt and succeed in the 21 century.
Indicators
- Identify technical changes that have occurred in the past ten years and forecast changes.
- Identify personal skills and attitudes that will be necessary to succeed in the next century.
- Describe the importance of training, retraining, and cross-training.
Suggested Activities
- Charts of roles that students fill and their interdependence
- Futures wheels and/or webbing
- Scenario writing
- Journals
- Resource speakers
- Autobiographies with future projections
- Newspaper publication with future date
- Mural of future community
- Projection of future jobs
- Bulletin board with futuristic articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers
- Interviews with parents to determine their future forecasts*
* This and other starred activities facilitate parental involvement.
