Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 history and anthropology. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This teaching resource introduces the work of Dr Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown and Matthew Longstaffe, Canadian archaeologists who are working with local Mayas in Belize to excavate an Ancestral Maya town. • This resource also contains interviews with Meahgan and Matthew and offers an insight into careers in archaeology. If your students have questions for Meahgan and Matthew, they can send them through the Futurum Careers website. • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Meahgan and Matthew’s research and challenges them to follow an interactive dig. This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources, or have suggestions for improvements, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Suitable for 14 to 19-year-olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom or shared with students online. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Anthropology, Agriculture and Food Technology. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This teaching resource explains the work of Emmanuel Roux and Professor David Himmelgreen who, at 15th Street Farm in Florida, in the US, run an education project to help local families learn about their local food systems and make healthier food choices. • This resource also contains interviews with Emmanuel, David and their team. If you or your students have a question for them, you can submit it online – go to the article using the Futurum link below and scroll to the bottom of the page. The team will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on the team’s research, and tasks them to devise a food-based community event. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this Spanish article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Spanish, anthropology, social science and citizenship. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Janet Page-Reeves, a cultural anthropologist at the University of New Mexico, and her team. They have established Tertulias, peer support groups for Mexican immigrant women, and are investigating whether these Tertulias groups can reduce social isolation and depression. • This resource also contains interviews with team members and offers an insight into careers in anthropology. If your students have questions for the team, they can send them to them online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). The team will will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on the team’s research and challenges them to design a peer support group to reduce social isolation among the elderly. • The article and activity sheet are also available in English through the weblink below. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 anthropology, social science and citizenship. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Janet Page-Reeves, a cultural anthropologist at the University of New Mexico, and her team. They have established Tertulias, peer support groups for Mexican immigrant women, and are investigating whether these Tertulias groups can reduce social isolation and depression. • This resource also contains interviews with team members and offers an insight into careers in anthropology. If your students have questions for the team, they can send them to them online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). The team will will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on the team’s research and challenges them to design a peer support group to reduce social isolation among the elderly. • The article and activity sheet are also available in Spanish through the weblink below. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 anthropology and social studies. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This teaching resource explains the work of Taylor van Doren and Professor Lisa Sattenspiel, anthropologists at the University of Missouri, USA. They are investigating the impacts of social inequalities on the outcomes of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Newfoundland, Canada. • This resource also contains an interview with Taylor and Lisa and offers an insight into careers in anthropology. If your students have questions for Taylor and Lisa, they can send them to them online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Taylor and Lisa will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Taylor and Lisa’s research and challenges them to design an anthropological study. • An animation about Taylor and Lisa’s work is available through the weblink, along with a downloadable script. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 anthropology, linguistics, human geography, art and design, and computing. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Keith Murphy, a linguistic anthropologist. Linguistic anthropologists study the nature of language and how humans use it in their everyday lives, but Keith is taking his research in an unusual direction. He is exploring the role fonts play in society and how they are used to influence the way we communicate. • This resource also contains an interview with Keith and offers an insight into careers in anthropology. If your students have questions for Keith, they can send them to him online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Keith will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Keith’s research and challenges them to consider the role fonts play in our society. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Suitable for 14 to 19-year-olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom or shared with students online. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Arabic, History, Geography, Archaeology, Sociology and Anthropology. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This Arabic teaching resource explains the work of Dr Lisa Maher, at the University of California, and Dr Danielle Macdonald, at the University of Tulsa, in the US, who are investigating artefacts left by humans living 20,000 years ago to gain an insight into how one of the earliest societies lived. • This resource also contains interviews with Lisa and Danielle. If you or your students have a question for them, you can submit it online – go to the article using the Futurum link below and scroll to the bottom of the page. Lisa and Danielle will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Lisa and Danielle’s research, and tasks them to think about what different archaeological artefacts can reveal. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Suitable for 14 to 19-year-olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom or shared with students online. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 History, Geography, Archaeology, Sociology and Anthropology. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Lisa Maher, at the University of California, and Dr Danielle Macdonald, at the University of Tulsa, in the US, who are investigating artefacts left by humans living 20,000 years ago to gain an insight into how one of the earliest societies lived. • This resource also contains interviews with Lisa and Danielle. If you or your students have a question for them, you can submit it online – go to the article using the Futurum link below and scroll to the bottom of the page. Lisa and Danielle will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Lisa and Danielle’s research, and tasks them to think about what different archaeological artefacts can reveal. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 history and archaeology. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Sarah Kurnick, an archaeologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. She is investigating how Postclassic Maya communities at Punta Laguna interacted with their Classic Maya past, by working with the contemporary Maya who live in Punta Laguna today. • This resource also contains an interview with Sarah and offers an insight into careers in archaeology. If your students have questions for Sarah, they can send them to her online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Sarah will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Sarah’s research and challenges them to explore why we topple statues to protest how we commemorate the past. • The article and activity sheet are also available in Spanish through the weblink below. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Suitable for 14 to 19-year-olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Japanese. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This Japanese language teaching resource explains the work of anthropologists, Dr Emily Emmott at University College London in the UK and Dr Masahito Morita at the University of Tokyo in Japan, who are looking at what is important to teenagers in different cultures as they go through adolescence. • This resource also contains an interviews with Emily and Masahito. If you or your students have a question for them, you can submit it online – go to the article using the Futurum link below and scroll to the bottom of the page. They will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Emily and Masahito’s research, and tasks them to explore what the photos they take say about them and their lives. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Suitable for 14 to 19-year-olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Anthropology, Biology, Psychology and Sociology. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This teaching resource explains the work of anthropologists, Dr Emily Emmott at University College London in the UK and Dr Masahito Morita at the University of Tokyo in Japan, who are looking at what is important to teenagers in different cultures as they go through adolescence. • This resource also contains an interviews with Emily and Masahito. If you or your students have a question for them, you can submit it online – go to the article using the Futurum link below and scroll to the bottom of the page. They will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Emily and Masahito’s research, and tasks them to explore what the photos they take say about them and their lives. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Anthropology, Sociology and Social Sciences. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Clare Chandler and Susan Nayiga from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. They are medical anthropologists, investigating the use of antibiotics in communities in Uganda, with a goal to combatting the global issue of antimicrobial resistance. • This resource also contains interviews with Clare and Susan. If your students have questions for them, they can send them to Clare and Susan online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Clare and Susan will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Clare and Susan’s research and challenges them to think about how different cultures view issues related to health and illness. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM/social science clubs and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Geography, Anthropology and PSHE and is also internationally relevant. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • What is anthropology? What can we learn from Indigenous knowledge? This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Darren Ranco from the University of Maine in the USA. Darren is an anthropologist and a citizen of the Penobscot Nation, a sovereign people in the Wabanaki Confederacy of Tribes. Darren is investigating ways to attract more Indigenous students into STEM – a sector that would benefit hugely from the input of Indigenous knowledge. • This resource also contains an interview with Darren about his career path. If your students (or you) have questions for Darren, you/they can send them to him online. All you need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Darren will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Darren’s research and challenges them to think about the relevance of Indigenous science in the science curriculum. • The PPT reiterates the key points in the article and includes separate Bloom’s Taxonomy talking points. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Thank you for downloading this free resource. Let us know how we are doing and leave us a review. Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Geography and PSHE. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This teaching resource explains the work of the TRANSGANG team in Spain and what it means to be an anthropologist. The researchers are working with Latino and Arab youth gangs from several locations in the Americas, Southern Europe and North Africa, and across different gang cultures, including pandillas, clicas, combos and maras. Their aim is to change our negative perceptions of youth gangs and to help them integrate into society using mediation. • This resource also contains interviews with anthropologists working this project. If your students (or you) have questions for the TRANSGANG team, you/they can send them to the anthropologists online. All you need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). The team will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on the TRANSGANG project and challenges them to consider ethical problems. • The PowerPoint reiterates some of the points in the article. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!