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Year 8 • Lesson 16

Build Day

Create your final project

Now it's real. Make something you're proud of.

🎯 Learning Objectives

  • Work independently to create a high-quality digital product against a brief
  • Use AI appropriately as a planning and feedback tool (not a builder)
  • Manage time to have a complete draft ready for submission

📚 Key Vocabulary

Draft
A working version that will be refined before the final version
Iteration
Improving through repeated rounds of feedback and changes
Export
Saving in the final format (usually PDF) for submission

⏱️ Lesson Timing (50 mins)

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Hook
3 mins

Students review their project plan from Lesson 15. Teacher sets the timer: "80 minutes. Go."

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Teach
2 mins
  • Quick quality check: does your work meet each success criteria? Review halfway through.
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Create
50 mins

Students build their final project. Teacher circulates and provides live feedback — focuses on: Does it meet the success criteria? Is it appropriate for the audience? Is it technically accurate? Students record any AI use in their AI use statement (ongoing). At the 40-minute mark, teacher prompts everyone to do a quality review against their success criteria.

Tools:
CanvaPowerPoint OnlineWord OnlineExcel Online
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Share
5 mins

Paired preview: swap with a partner and give one piece of specific improvement feedback before next lesson.

🔧 Tools & Resources

🤖 AI Angle

AI may be used for feedback, improving drafts, and generating ideas — but every word in the final product should be written or edited by the student.

📝 Evidence of Learning

Draft final project + AI use statement

📚 Homework

Polish your project at home. Apply the feedback from your partner. Export the final version as PDF. Save to portfolio by the start of Lesson 17.

⏱️ 30 mins

♿ Differentiation

Support (for students who need help)

Teacher check-in at 15, 30 and 45 minutes

Extension (for advanced learners)

Add a reflective "Designer's Commentary" — a short paragraph explaining each major design/content decision