This worksheet includes several FutureFit Extension Activities that highlight 21st Century skills like critical thinking, service mentality, and creativity. These FutureFit Extension Activities are designed to reinforce the concepts included in the worksheet activity while integrating real-world skills. They can be used as in-class independent practice or group activities, or assigned for take-home or independent work.
FutureFit Extension Activities
Serve
In the left-hand column of a Double Entry Journal Template graphic organizer, have your students make a list of 3 pressing problems in the local community that they would like to see fixed within the next 5 years. Have them write down proposed solutions to those problems in the right-hand column. If the concept of “local community” is too abstract, substitute the school or classroom community. When students have completed the exercise, have them partner up and review each other’s problems and solutions, and together pick the one they judge to be most important. Gather the most important problems from each pairing and have the class vote on which problem is the most pressing. Together, develop a list of solutions to that problem and record them on the board.
