11 Powerful Video Lessons (81 minutes total) Each lesson builds essential skills for navigating our changing world Views of the Future: Personal Perspectives (6:44) Empower students to recognize how their viewpoints shape their future choices. Watch students discover their own power to influence tomorrow. Views of the Future: Optimism and Pessimism (7:02) Enable students to harness both optimistic vision and practical caution when thinking about future possibilities. Views of the Past: Change and the STEEP Categories (5:31) Give students powerful analytical tools used by professional futurists. Watch them master the STEEP framework to understand change across Social, Technological, Environmental, Economic, and Political dimensions. Trends: How Change Shapes Our Futures (9:19) Equip students with the ability to spot emerging patterns and understand their implications. Transform passive observers into active trend analysts. Imagining the Future (7:01) Unlock your students' creative potential as they learn structured approaches to envisioning different futures. Bridge analytical thinking with creative exploration. Futures Wheel (10:03) Empower students with a visual tool that reveals the interconnected nature of change. Watch them uncover how single changes create ripple effects across society. Events: Change is More Than Just Trends (6:34) Enable students to anticipate and prepare for unexpected developments. Build resilience through understanding how single events reshape futures. What If? (7:11) Empower students to explore how events create ripple effects of change. Students use the powerful "What If?" technique combined with the Futures Wheel to trace consequences and imagine detailed future scenarios. Watch as students develop sophisticated cause-and-effect thinking about future possibilities. Many Stories of the Future (7:59) Building on their "What If?" questions, students learn to expand single storylines into multiple, diverse futures. They discover how one possibility can unfold in various ways across different cultural perspectives and timeframes. Influencing the Future (6:29) Transform students from reactive to proactive thinkers. Students learn how to move beyond just accepting possible futures to actively influencing and shaping the futures they want. Watch as they develop the confidence and skills to become active participants rather than passive observers of tomorrow. The Hero Story (7:50) Students step into the role of future heroes, actively deciding what actions they can take to create their preferred futures. They move from observers to protagonists, discovering concrete ways to work toward the futures they want to see. This culminating lesson transforms abstract futures thinking into practical, personal action steps.