Top Teacher Resources for 2025
by the team at Future Anything
To kick off 2025, the Future Anything team has pulled together some of current favourite top teacher resources, all designed to help educators start 2025 with some fun, practical activities that will build capabilities, connection and classroom culture.
Grab a cuppa and have a browse – you’re sure to find something that will spark a new idea – for you AND your students!
FUTURE ANYTHING’S TOP TEACHER RESOURCES FOR 2025
BBC My World Global Curriculum
This resource, available through Microsoft’s Educator Center, offers free, high-quality teaching materials designed to empower students aged 11-14 with a global perspective. Developed in partnership with the BBC, it provides engaging, real-world content that fosters critical thinking, media literacy, and a deeper understanding of global issues—perfect for classrooms aiming to build informed and empathetic global citizens.
Native Land
This interactive map lets students explore the Indigenous territories, languages, and treaties of different regions worldwide. It’s a powerful tool for teaching cultural awareness and understanding historical land relationships in your local context.
PwC: Which Type of Solver Are You?
This fun, interactive quiz helps students identify their problem-solving style and potential career pathways. Use it to spark career-focused discussions and develop self-awareness in your students.
Study Work Grow: Career Clusters Program
Aligned with the Australian curriculum, this resource provides lesson plans and activities that help students explore career pathways through clusters. It’s perfect for career education or work experience preparation.
Unnecessary Inventions
This entertaining YouTube channel showcases wildly creative (and often hilarious) product ideas that push the boundaries of innovation. It’s great for engaging students in discussions about design, prototyping, and problem-solving.
Catapult Cards
Catapult Cards are a series of process-driven decks of cards developed by our own Nicole Dyson.
Designed to support divergent thinking, the decks take users from looking at problems around them through to pitching their own innovative, scalable and sustainable idea.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation: Circular Design Guide
Explore hands-on methods to integrate circular economy principles into the classroom. This guide empowers students to think sustainably and design solutions that tackle waste and resource use.
World’s Largest Lesson (UN Sustainable Development Goals)
This free collection of creative resources introduces students to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. It’s perfect for embedding global citizenship and fostering action on world challenges.
Hyper Island Toolbox
A treasure trove of workshop tools and methods for collaboration, problem-solving, and creativity. Perfect for energizing classrooms or facilitating project-based learning sessions.
Board of Innovation: Tools
Access a comprehensive library of free tools and templates designed to inspire creativity, foster innovation, and solve complex problems. Perfect for integrating design thinking, strategy, and entrepreneurial skills into your classroom or professional development sessions.
Artist and Innovation Toolkit
This resource combines art and entrepreneurship to foster creativity and innovation. It’s perfect for encouraging interdisciplinary thinking and empowering students to see themselves as creators.
UT Match My Skills
This interactive quiz connects students’ strengths and interests with potential study and career options. It’s an engaging way to guide students on their career exploration journey.
Future Anything Enterprising Educators Network
Connect with like-minded educators in this active Facebook community focused on teaching 21st-century skills. Gain access to shared resources, practical strategies, and discussions to enhance your classroom practices and empower your students for the future.
James Dyson Foundation Challenge Cards
These engineering challenges are perfect for hands-on STEM activities, sparking creativity, and teaching students how to solve real-world problems with innovative thinking.
Stokedeck
A gamified deck of creative tools and exercises to boost innovation and teamwork. It’s a fun and dynamic way to inspire students and promote collaboration in any classroom setting.
IDEO Design Kit
This practical guide introduces students to human-centered design thinking through tools and case studies. It’s perfect for project-based learning and fostering empathy-driven innovation.
Future Anything: Learning Experiences & Classroom Resources
A collection, curated by Future Anything, of dynamic classroom activities and lesson ideas to engage students in real-world problem-solving, entrepreneurship, and innovation. From hands-on challenges to ready-to-use templates, this resource hub supports educators in creating impactful, future-focused learning experiences. Check them out here.
Carbon Almanac Educators’ Guide
This accessible guide simplifies climate change topics with activities and resources designed to engage students in taking action for a sustainable future.
Untools
A curated collection of mental models to help students think critically, solve problems, and make decisions more effectively. It’s great for embedding 21st-century skills in lessons.
MyPBLWorks Resources
An excellent repository of tools, rubrics, and project ideas to support educators in implementing gold-standard project-based learning. It’s a go-to for planning transformative learning experiences.
Creative Innovations and Good News Stories on a Host of Issues
The shorts on Sam Bentley’s Youtube Channel are a series of fantastic 1 minute snippets that show how innovators and community organisers are making a difference on a vast array of big problems.
The Earthshot Prize: Case studies of solutions that benefit the planet
The Earthshot Prize is a prestigious award given to the best innovators working to help the planet.
The webpage for each winner includes a video and a write-up about their work. A great resource for case studies on any units of learning about the planet, the environment, or innovation. Check it out here.
The Pretotyping Effect - The Power of Simple Tests of Your Ideas
“Make sure you are building the right ‘it’, before you build it right.”
That’s a favourite saying from author and innovator Alberto Savoia. In this short article, he provides a compelling test for why simple and low cost tests of an idea pay dividends for the innovator’s journey.
Protobot - Randomly generated design challenge
Perfect to get students flexing their creativity muscles and rustling off the cobwebs, the Protobot website will generate a fun creativity challenge with each click of a button.
You’ll get results like “design a football that helps you make friends”, or “design a sponge that requires at least 3 people to use.” A (possibly infinite?) array of prompts that you can put your own structures around!
Fix The News
Fix The News is an independent, subscriber-supported publication, read by 60,000 people from 195 countries. Each week, they find 30-40 stories of progress from around the world, and summarise and share them in our email newsletter. Check it out at https://fixthenews.com/
Future Anything: Case Studies
Check out the Future Anything YouTube Channel here for a heap of filmed case studies of incredible Australian social entrepreneurs.
With prompts for students at the end of each one, they’re a fantastic way to bring the real world into every classroom.
John Munro - Curiouser and Curiouser
Curiouser and Curiouser dives into the magic of curiosity as the driving force behind powerful learning, showing how it’s both a natural instinct and a skill we can grow. It breaks down the difference between exploratory curiosity (chasing the new and exciting) and intellectual curiosity (digging deeper for understanding) and gives teachers practical ways to spark and sustain it in the classroom.
High Tech High
High Tech High (HTH) is a network of 16 public charter schools in San Diego, California, known for its innovative approach to education and extensive resources for educators. With a focus on project-based learning, real-world connections, and personalization, HTH provides access to exemplary student projects, curriculum design tools, and professional development materials.
Future Anything’s Activate in-curriculum program and student workshops build confident communicators of all ages, by empowering young people to develop, and then persuasively pitch, innovative social enterprise solutions to the problems they care about.
Find out more about our programs here.