Thriving in a Changing World: Liveability in a Time of Climate Change

  • Updated
    07/04/26
  • Audience
    Secondary school
  • Learning stage
    Stage 4
  • Learning area
    Climate change, Geography
  • Type
    Museum educator-led
Future Now
Future Now, photographed in February 2025 Image: Natalia Mroz
© Australian Museum
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About the program

This 1-hour program is designed for Stage 4 Geography students.
The program puts students into the role of town planners in a fast-paced, collaborative simulation. Students will look at technological and nature-based solutions to attempt to prevent and adapt to our changing climate.

They will be supported by Museum educators to make and evaluate choices about energy, food, transport and the natural world, using engaging landscapes and models. As our warming world brings new extremes, these new town planners will quickly see how their choices determine their town’s liveability. They will learn to consider real-world limitations like money, social will, individual adaptability and resilience, and limited land use, before reflecting on what aspects they can bring into their own lives to enact the world they want to see.

This program will occur off-site with the Future Now exhibition, three custom built scale models full of sustainable landscapes and innovative climate solutions.


Learning objectives:
In this program, students will:

  • be able to identify sustainability practices and inventions at all levels of society to enhance liveability, and why these could be effective.
  • look at technological, nature-based, and community-based solutions to prevent and adapt to climate change
  • evaluate the ways that towns can be organised more sustainably.
  • be able to explain the benefits of caring for Country to enhance liveability for all peoples in the context of climate change.
  • be able to explain practices they can take to be more sustainable and identify a way in which they will take positive action.


Audience: This program is bookable for Stage 4
Cost: Free
Duration: 60 minutes
Capacity: Up to 30 students per session
Term: Terms 2-3 2026
Dates: Monday-Friday
Times: 10:00am, 11:00am, & 12.00pm

This program will occur off-site at the location of the Future Now exhibition as it travels. Program Itinerary:

NSW Syllabus (for the Australian curriculum)

Stage 4
HSIE / Geography Syllabus
A student:

  • locates the diverse features and describes the characteristics of a range of places and environments GE4-DFC-01
  • explains the processes and interactions that change people, places and environments GE4-PRI-01 
  • examines and describes the perspectives of people and organisations on a range of geographical issues GE4-PER-01
  • explains the management and protection of places and environments GE4-MAN-01
  • explains Aboriginal Peoples’ Custodianship, care and management of Country GE4-APC-01
  • uses concepts and terminology to communicate geographical information for a range of purposes, audiences and contexts GE4-COM-01

Any changes to numbers or cancellations must be made in writing by emailing group.bookings@australian.museum before the date for Final Confirmation (14 days prior to your visit).

Final booking numbers must be confirmed at least 14 days prior to the scheduled visit.

A tax invoice will be issued prior to your visit based on Final Confirmation details.

This program will occur off-site at the location of the Future Now exhibition as it travels. Program Itinerary:

For more general information about your excursion, visit our School groups page (keeping mind this program is not at the museum site).