Ender's Game: Film Guide

Ender's Game
Ender's Game

Ages

11–14

Duration

Short (1-4 activities)

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4 October - 10 October

A film guide that looks at Ender's Game (2013), a futuristic sci-fi with explosive effects where the fate of humanity rests on one young boy's shoulders.

This guide is useful for exploring topics including Science, Psychology, Literacy, Citizenship, and Design and Technology in addition to highlighting themes surrounding ethics, books, visual arts, democracy, growing up, mental health, space and planets, technology and war.

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This Resource Supports

  • Citizenship
  • Design and Technology
  • English
  • Information Computing Technology
  • Literacy
  • Politics
  • PSHE Education
  • Psychology
  • Science

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