Unit 10, Lesson 1: Investigating the Future
Learning Target: I can independently research what the next threshold may be.
Class Activities:
1. Students walked in; there was no handout.
2. We verbally reviewed Big History and its thresholds.Then we brainstormed what the next threshold might be. Some common ideas were:
3. We watched a brief youtube clip for more ideas. Check it out below.
4. We used computers and our phones to research potential thresholds in the future. Students took notes for a Socratic Seminar we'll have on Friday.
Some interesting websites I looked at were:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpEFjWbXog0&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WooXoaSiuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GooNhOIMY0
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-shostak/could-this-be-humanitys-l_b_8980080.html
https://www.rt.com/news/242441-earth-facing-human-extinction/
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/11627386/Humans-will-become-God-like-cyborgs-within-200-years.html
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/-weather-whiplash--promises-to-bring-more-dangerous-extremes-453589059921
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/12/futurists-next-10-years_n_7241210.html
https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/half-of-global-wildlife-lost-says-new-wwf-report
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/01/project-exodus-critic-at-large-kolbert
Papers handed in today:
None
Homework:
Finish research for Socratic Seminar on Friday. Our topic is, "What will the next threshold be? How will the world change?"
Class Activities:
1. Students walked in; there was no handout.
2. We verbally reviewed Big History and its thresholds.Then we brainstormed what the next threshold might be. Some common ideas were:
- New sources of energy
- Colonizing other planets
- Technology/AI taking over
- Mass extinctions/global warming
- World War 3, possibly over resources
3. We watched a brief youtube clip for more ideas. Check it out below.
4. We used computers and our phones to research potential thresholds in the future. Students took notes for a Socratic Seminar we'll have on Friday.
Some interesting websites I looked at were:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpEFjWbXog0&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WooXoaSiuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GooNhOIMY0
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-shostak/could-this-be-humanitys-l_b_8980080.html
https://www.rt.com/news/242441-earth-facing-human-extinction/
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/11627386/Humans-will-become-God-like-cyborgs-within-200-years.html
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/-weather-whiplash--promises-to-bring-more-dangerous-extremes-453589059921
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/12/futurists-next-10-years_n_7241210.html
https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/half-of-global-wildlife-lost-says-new-wwf-report
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/01/project-exodus-critic-at-large-kolbert
Papers handed in today:
None
Homework:
Finish research for Socratic Seminar on Friday. Our topic is, "What will the next threshold be? How will the world change?"