Students can use purple cards to illustrate their futures and predict the possible, probable, and preferable events that will occur. This is critical information for teachers, who can then develop strategies for helping students who seem defeated, she noted. One such strategy builds on the lifeline activity by asking students to create a future wheel for one of the events described on their purple cards. To complete the graphic organizer, students place the identified event, or goal, in a center circle. Students are then required to identify the challenges they will face in taking those actions steps, and to brainstorm ways to overcome those challenges.
Students learn that they can hope.