Today the class turns the option it backed into a plan that can survive a real school calendar. A global challenge still needs a local action: something different afterwards, and somebody outside this room who notices. By the end of the period the work is laid across the weeks you actually have, with names on the jobs and a clear test for done.

A plan that survives names three kinds of work running side by side: finding things out, making something, and getting it in front of somebody. It also says what happens this week, what happens next, and what “finished” looks like. You will learn those tracks properly by placing real milestones on the grid next.

Open the planner below. The start is the option written in full on the board. The finish is the action done, with somebody outside the class having noticed.

First, in pairs for two minutes, jot one possible milestone for each of the three tracks.

Then, as a class, call out milestones while your teacher places them on the board, across three tracks and three time horizons. Every square you can fill honestly gets a milestone. Empty squares are information: they show what you still have to invent.

When the grid holds a workable shape, the class stops changing it. Your teacher then writes on the board, in plain words, who does each main job, the real dates, and the one sentence that means “this is done”. To finish, take sixty seconds to put your initials next to a job, on your own or with your partner. Any job left without a name is a risk the class will talk about next.

Look at the plan the class made.

Where is the thinnest track? Where is the busiest week? Does the done-sentence describe a change somebody else could see, or only that the class finished a task?

Agree one risk that could stall this plan (a permission, a date clash, a job with no name) and the fix you will use if it happens.

You planned a local citizenship action that answers a global challenge the class already chose. The work now sits across real weeks and three kinds of work: finding things out, making something, and getting it in front of somebody. You named who does what, the dates, and what counts as done. Next comes running it, and keeping honest evidence while you work.