Level 1 ✱ This activity is designed to engage students in critical thinking and speculation about film scenes. By pausing the clips just before unexpected events occur, students are prompted to craft ideas and predictions about what might happen next.

Visual art meets corporate critique to expose how financial design and profit-maximizing capitalism shape inequality—and what that means for our economic future.

Level 1 to 2 ✱ Fallacies are mistakes made in the construction or presentation of an argument. This activity will encourage students to begin spotting fallacies in the media they consume.

Level 1 ✱ We make decisions all the time, but what are the decisions based on and how can we analyze the decision made? Using film clips and the Toulmin model will help to understand this important aspect of critical thinking.

A complete workshop with lesson plan, handouts and Powerpoint which will allow teachers to explore the concept of inequality in the context of the monetary system through means of The Waterworks of Money and the movie "Bank of Dave" (2023). Ideal for tertiary level students, but may also work for upper secondary.

Visual art meets corporate critique to expose how financial design and profit-maximizing capitalism shape inequality—and what that means for our economic future.

Level 2 to 3 ✱ In this dialogue, students seated inside the “fishbowl” actively participate by asking questions and sharing their opinions connected to a statement, while students standing outside listen carefully to the ideas presented.

A Socratic Dialogue is about thinking – in which the participants investigate together what they think and why they think this. The quest is to gain more wisdom together.

Wicked Water Works is an interactive classroom workshop where students simulate the challenge of distributing limited resources across society. Using quizzes, group decision-making, and discussion, participants explore financial inequality and the systems that shape economic outcomes. Designed for higher education, the lesson includes slides, exercises, and discussion materials to run a 90–120 minute session.

Level 2 to 3 ✱ Sound in film is added very consciously. With this activity, your students will learn to look at the use of sound and music more critically by for example asking: "What are they trying to achieve?" or "What made the filmmaker decide that a voice-over would be more effective?"

Creating and doing a Kahoot quiz: the Kahoot should be either used to activate existing knowledge before the clip or quiz the group on key points from the shown (film) clip.