• Analyze, evaluate, and apply information
• Look at things or ideas from different perspectives
• Look at causes and effects, pros and cons, consequences of actions or decisions
• Look at alternative choices, ideas, solutions, etc.
• Take apart ideas or information and study the various pieces

• Continue work with mathematical problem solving strategies
• Continue to work with logical thinking activities
• Continue with Future Problem Solving (FPS) and application
• Literature studies and activities using futuristic/science fiction literature
• Future Studies

• Look at ideas in new, different, or unusual ways
• Take an idea and create a new idea from it; going beyond what already exists or has been tried before
• Combining ideas for new solutions, ideas, creations
• Generating ideas, solutions that are different from the "norm" for one's peers

• Practice and application of creative thinking components
• Writing activities to encourage creative thinking
• Application through Future Problem Solving

• Determine questions to investigate
• Search out information to answer those questions
• Read critically - picking out important, relevant information concerning the topic or questions
• Compile information in order to organize and/or share it with others

• Continue practice with skills previously taught
• Long term research projects (Future Studies & Aerospace)

• Develop a positive attitude about oneself, one's abilities, and one's learning
• Develop the ability to direct and be responsible for one's own learning
• Develop the ability to cooperate and work with others

"Other generations believed that they had the luxury of preparing their children to live in a society similar to their own. Ours is the first generation to have achieved the Socratic wisdom of knowing that we do not know the world in which our children will live." --Foundations of Futurology in Education

• Quotes
• Centers
• Daily plans
• Goal setting

Students take a weekend trip to Los Angeles to further explore the world of Aerospace. They visit Rockwell International where they can view a full size model of the space shuttle. They visit Jet Propulsion Labs to learn more about the satellites that are put into space by them. They also visit the Los Angeles County Aerospace Museum and the San Diego Aerospace Museum.