This activity encourages learners to reflect on ‘development’ and how it means different things to different people. It also encourages critically and creative thinking about meeting the needs of future generations.

How is your local community linked to the global future? Explore probable and preferable futures locally and globally and encourage pupils to think about what actions they can take to make their preferable future a reality.

Challenge pupils to prioritise what is most important to them and compare it with young people’s responses from around the world.

In this activity pupils will consider what it means to be doing well in life and compare their ideas with those of two young people in Ethiopia and Peru.

Julie Brown, Education Manager from Practical Action, explains how real life case studies from around the world can bring a global dimension to the science classroom.

Mobile phone or sanitation? What does technology mean to you? Levels 2/3