Teacher notes and answers
Teacher card
Our sustainability decision report / LAUNCH_SU1_W06
Outcome: Complete a sustainability decision report.
Evidence to retain: S: decision report against unit success criteria; retain evidence.
Forty minute route
Arrival 4 min; starter 3; model 6; shared task 7; check 2; independent 12; review 3; exit 3. Pause time is flexible.
Preparation
Choose one independent route. Print the evidence and shared cards, required visual or data sheet, route worksheet and exit. The organiser is one separate A4 page. Keep answers with staff.
Prepare the cards, organiser and one task route. Model the four steps before independent work. Use the supplied source record and distinguish real evidence from authored scenarios. The teacher supplies the school’s copy of No One Is Too Small by Greta Thunberg; no extract or quotation is included. Use the two authored options and the explicit three-criterion scoring grid. Accept the pupil’s supported conclusion or a faithful dated adult note. Record support used; this is adult-life work, not an examination.
Access and regulation
Pre-teach terminology and model evidence use. Chunk sources and data; provide an initial frame, then reduce it. Maintain normal access arrangements. Extend by weighing limitations, alternative explanations and evidence quality. Adults support access and evidence selection without supplying answers. Use labelled examples and a reduced data set before the full task.
Offer a calm start, an agreed pause and a private response option. Accept speech, pointing, typing or writing. Invite reasoned disagreement without personal or family disclosure.
Use sensitive content warnings where relevant. Do not ask for family details or personal experiences.
Assessment
Retain the individual report, criterion grid and support record. Keep access arrangements while removing answer models and recording any content prompts.
UAS: no approved unit code is supplied. Match the learner’s evidence to the centre-selected unit and exact criteria before submission. This pack makes no automatic award claim.
Model and answers
Read these pages before teaching. Hide the model during independent assessment.
Question: How do I support a feasibility score for the paper-reuse option?
Evidence: The authored scenario supplies teacher permission and a daily tray-check role.
Explain: I can justify 3 for feasibility in this scenario and record that reason.
Check: I still score access and resource benefit, name a trade-off and check real local evidence.
Arrival answers
1. Preferred option, criterion evidence, trade-offs, limitations and next action.
2. No. They are reasoned judgements about the scenario.
3. No. CO2 concentration data do not establish the result of that school action.
4. It shows how the decision can be checked or carried out responsibly.
Shared activity reasoning
Exit responses
Explain your decision using criterion scores and evidence. Accept a preferred option supported by criterion scores and reasons from the authored scenario.
What trade-off and limitation have you retained? Require a trade-off and a limitation, such as a tray not suiting every task and scores being judgements rather than measured savings.
Teaching and evidence record
Supplied scheme of work teaching sequence: Score options against explicit criteria. Use unit evidence to write a reasoned report explaining the preferred option, trade-offs, limitations and a realistic next action.
Look for
S: decision report against unit success criteria; retain evidence.
Accept accurate equivalents, including speech or exact scribing. Check the concept and use of evidence rather than length or handwriting. Record access support separately from content prompting.
BUILD: a concrete example with a reason or demonstrated action. GROW: explain or compare with a relevant detail. LAUNCH: connect evidence and reasoning; use a limitation when the outcome requires it. Keep RE responses non-GCSE.
Media
Silent authored model with four caption cards. Read, pause and rehearse each step; use the matching transcript for access.
Use manual steps for a calm pace. The silent MP4 has visible captions and a matching text transcript. The supplied model is authored for this lesson.
Source credits
Evidence and factual claim record ../../../Sources_and_checks.html#w06
Exact unit scheme and access text ../../../Sources_and_checks.html#sow
Authored scenarios and limits ../../../Sources_and_checks.html#authored
Teacher-supplied book and source checks ../../../Sources_and_checks.html#book
Source access results and dates are recorded in Sources_and_checks.html.