Our young futurists have been hard at work on their Futures Wheels. A Futures Wheel is a tool used by futurists to explore impacts of possible events. In this case, students are using the future invention they chose earlier as the "event". They are tasked with first identifying the primary impacts of their invention, should it become a reality. They then let their creative thinking take over and explore tertiary impacts. The initial stage of this was more of a web than a wheel, with the goal of getting the students thinking about all possible scenarios, no matter how ridiculous (and they often were ridiculous!).
I'll post some examples on here soon so you can see how they look. The kids have now moved on to focusing their thinking into 4-6 primary impacts, and a single chain of possible events that could stem from each. Later, they will present their findings to their ELP group accompanied by their recommendations about whether or not the invention should become a reality.
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