Age of Stupid

Assessment
Lesson Objectives:
• To understand some of the potential long term impacts
of climate change
• To know that the Earth’s future climate is uncertain.
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Informatio
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The Age of Stupid is a 2009 British film by Franny

Armstrong.
The film is a drama-documentary-animation hybrid.
Stars Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the
devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage
from the mid-to-late 2000s and asking "Why didn't we
stop climate change when we had the chance?"
 Challenge Activity

Assessment Task

- Watch the following clips on the next slide,

there is 6 of them with a maximum of 3
minutes.
- I want you to make notes on the clips, how
can you use them for your assessment?
The Age of Stupid
 Task 2 - PLANNING
 You must write an account of the effects of climate change from 2055 to the people of
2021… describing the changes you have expect to observe and explain why they have
occurred.
 Things you can think about when planning your assessment:
 Climate change and Global warming
 - What is global warming? Is it bad? What would the world be like without it? How is the
climate changing?
 - Why does global warming occur? How does it occur? What are the human activities that
enhance it?
 - Can you back your evidence up with facts, figures?
 Impacts
 What are the impacts? Can you provide me with any examples? What countries are at
threat?
 Solutions
 How can it be improved? What can YOU do? What can the government do? Want can world
organisations, such as the UN?
 Conclusion

You can be pessimistic (negative) or
optimistic (positive) view! You may think the
world is doomed, or the world has hope!! It
is YOUR assessment and you can create it
completely on YOUR opinion.
Have humans realised just in time? Or is it
too late?
What to include in assessment
Introduction on what global warming is
Causes of global warming
Effects of global warming in different parts
of the world .
How could we have/how can we reduce
global warming?
Ideas of sustainable
development/solutions/reducing global
warming.
Different views of different people? (what
might a person in the USA think of global
warming? What would a young person think?
What would an environmentalist think?
Conclusion: What does the future hold for
the world?
Where to find it in your book
Powerpoints
Powerpoints and internet
Powerpoint, own research for
extra points, facts, figures,
examples.
Powerpoints and use your own
thoughts, research on the
internet, youtube…
Your own knowledge.
Your own knowledge
Start planning you assessment in the
back of your book…
 How are you going to present it? As an essay /
letter / journal entry?

The key to success here is to

include lots of your
geographical knowledge!!
 PEER ASSESSMENT FEEDBACK
POSITIVE COMMENTS IMPROVEMENT COMMENTS
Use the relevant levelled comment, from the bottom of the Use the relevant levelled comment, from the bottom of page,
page, to write a positive statement for your partner, such as: to write an improvement statement for your partner, such as:
You have begun to… Next time, you should begin to…
You have done well to… Next time, try to do a little more of…
You expressed ideas and insights well when… Next time, try to do a lot more of…
You improved / hit your level because… You could have express ideas and insights by…
I liked the bit where you… To hit your level you need to…
You gave a good example when… You could make your work better by…
You made good use of detail where… You need to correct the bit where…
You made good use of our learning when… Your need to make better use of our learning by…
Or, you could make a more general positive comment: Or, you could make a more general improving comment:
You really focussed on meeting fully the level you are Always focus on hitting the next sublevel up: you spent too
currently working at. long on the levels you have already met.
You successfully progressed from the top of your last level You need to prove you can fully meet the level you are
into the next level. working at before you jump ahead to the next.
Don’t write: Don’t write:
xVery good, well done!! xNot very good!!
xYou tried really hard!! xYou must try harder!!
xThis was very neat!! xThis was really scruffy!!
xYou wrote lots!! xYou didn’t write much!!
 Age Of Stupid Support Sheet
You may find some of these sentence starters helpful.
• The world in 2055 is in a terrible state …..
• Some low lying countries like Holland and Bangladesh are
under water because…
• The Sahara Desert has grown and …
• Many species of animals have ..
• The greenhouse effect became much stronger after 2015 and
…
• Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased because …
• We could have stopped this from happening by …
• We did manage to stop before it was too late because…
• Different people thought different things .. on one hand …
on the other hand …
• If only we had listened to…
• I’m so glad that ….