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| Topic Title | Overall Skills Development + Written Examination | Team Project Skills Development +Team project (Team Element) | Team Project (Personal Element) + Individual Report Skills Development | Individual Report | Written Examination practice and Mock Exam |
| Key Skills and Content | • Outlining standards, expectations and course delivery, researching info, reading and recording info | • Setting up and planning research. | • Reflecting on personal learning, teamwork and individual effort | • Breaking down one by one the sections of the Individual Report, exploring good examples and answering guiding questions. | • Exam-like questions practice in class (question value 1,2,3 points) |
| • Identifying information and trends, understanding key issues | • Team project skills: collaboration, communication of evidence | • Reflection on issues and perspectives | • Students work independently and share progress in small Teams | • Exam-like questions practice in class (question value 6,8 points) |
| • Identifying causes and consequences, evaluating possible courses of action, identifying perspectives | • Introduction to Team project, launching mini Team project, planning a project | • Reflective paper submission | • Students present their work in class and discuss chosen issues | • Exam-like questions practice in class (question value 15 points) |
| • Questioning knowledge claims, questioning the reliability of information, evaluating causes and consequences | • Select evidence and present research | • Individual Report Skills Development: researching information, referencing and citing information, report structure, perspectives, causes and consequences of an issue, possible scenarios, courses of action, evaluating sources. | • Individual Report submission | • Exam-like questions practice in class (question value 24 points) |
| • Questioning underlying beliefs, developing a line of reasoning | • Presenting mini team projects | | | • Past paper practice and assessment |
| • Exam-like questions practice in class | • Select evidence and present research, Teams work independently | | | • MOCK Exam- past paper |
| • Teamwork and individual effort | | | • Debrief and preparation for next year and Individual Report |
| Summative Assessment | Past paper (Component 1) | Team project- Team Element (Component 3) | Team project- Personal Element (Component 3) | Individual Report (Component 2) | Past papers (Component 1) |
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