Early Futures
Curriculum Notes
Project Description: Dialogue seeds, initial lights, what-have-yous for developing futures oriented curriculum with children. More so this is about what it means to engage with children. Some are completed projects initiated in preschool or research settings, others are notes for further investigation and future implementation.
Uses and Collaboration: The curriculum projects are an open source set of information. Feel free to use and reconfigure any and all information here to alternative uses. Early Futures encourages recontextualization of curriculum to use with all ages in businesses, councils, boards, museum programs and many other learning spaces. We encourage people to contribute their changes and further ideas through our submissions form, so we can highlight further trajectories.
“If…” / By Sarah Perry
If… (Getty Trust Publications : J. Paul Getty Museum) / By Sarah Perry
One of the key arenas of future studies education is creating imaginative relations with the universe. Perry’s book, If… is an excellent example of exactly the right kind of tool to use as a building block. The book takes its readers through a [...]
Urban Sandbox Idea
(a transient sand pile in Champs Elysees, France)
Inspiration /
“If you ask adults about their happiest or most vivid recollections of city childhood they will seldom talk about the park or the playground, but they will recall the vacant lot, the secret places behind billboards or hoardings. They will describe the delights of sand in the [...]
The Future School
Part of the study of the future with young children is having them imagine future worlds and when they might happen. The following are selections of drawings from a series on imagining future schools.
Drawing by Spencer, Age 5.
This is his idea:
“This is the pyramid school. The sun shows into the star above the school and [...]
10 Education Alternatives Books
These are 10 past influential books regarding education alternatives & theory (no order) :
School is Dead (read free .pdf)
By: Everett Reimer / Published 1972
“School has become the universal church of a technological society, incorporating and transmitting its ideology, shaping men’s minds to accept this ideology, and conferring social status in proportion to its acceptance.”
Deschooling Society [...]
Future Playgrounds
I found a great resource today while looking at energy playground related materials. Playground of the Future lists pretty much every kind of awesome playground style and resource links on where to read more information on their implementation. They also just list off ideas for future playgrounds like a, Color Changing Ground Surface, which would [...]
Energy Producing Playgrounds
The idea is an energy playground, where children could play on normal playground equipment, but it would be generating and saving energy. As I began researching I found a lot of great ideas already in use for play equipment:
Play Pumps is a non profit company that creates merry-go-rounds that children can play on while [...]