Design Brief
Week 1 brief. One page holding the issue, audience, purpose, structure, evidence, and design decisions.
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Year 7 English • Sustainability Infographic Unit Pack
Sustainability Infographic
A five-week, 20-resource unit that prepares students for your own assessment brief, which stays offline. It combines three reviewed sources with 17 print-ready builds. Students research one sustainability issue, design a digital infographic, and write a rationale.
Issue Map
Week 1 direct instruction. Turn a broad topic into one focused issue with causes, impacts, solutions, and stakeholders.
Open resource →Infographic Anatomy
Week 1 direct instruction. Title, standfirst, sections, data displays, icons, source line, and call to action.
Open resource →Infographic Sort
Week 1 game. Twelve briefs sorted into informational, statistical, radial, process, comparison, and decision-guide structures.
Open resource →Audience and Purpose
Week 2 direct instruction. Build a specific audience profile, choose a precise purpose, and write a purpose statement.
Open resource →Research and Data Literacy
Week 2 direct instruction. Turn claims into evidence, interrogate statistics, and distinguish correlation from causation.
Open resource →Source Credibility
Week 2 direct instruction. Apply five tests, trace recycled claims, and read laterally beyond the page.
Open resource →Visual Hierarchy and Layout
Week 3 direct instruction. Reading paths, grids, white space, grouping, contrast, type hierarchy, and the three-second test.
Open resource →Colour, Icons, and Symbols
Week 3 direct instruction. Purposeful palettes, accessible contrast, consistent icon families, and clear symbolism.
Open resource →Data Visualisation
Week 3 direct instruction. Choose honest chart forms, annotate the takeaway, and spot common distortions.
Open resource →Drafting Checklist
Week 3 practice. Build a complete draft against the task requirements, accessibility checks, and three-session plan.
Open resource →Model Infographic Analysis
Week 4 model. Annotate a schematic infographic and connect each design choice to purpose and audience.
Open resource →Rationale Model
Week 4 model. A six-part handwritten rationale with annotations, sentence frames, and common errors.
Open resource →Peer Feedback and Revision
Week 4 practice. Use the criteria to give kind, specific, helpful feedback and choose three revision priorities.
Open resource →Final Checklist
Week 5 checklist. Check task conditions, content, design, sources, rationale, and Compass submission.
Open resource →Revision Quest
Week 5 game. Five stages, fifteen questions, an answer key, and a six-sentence rationale challenge.
Open resource →Teacher Notes
Teacher guidance. Pacing, differentiation, quality prompts instead of a published rubric, and submission policy.
Open resource →Audit evidence. The audit lists 2 confirmed Sustainability Infographic assets and 17 adjacent candidates. Both confirmed items are Young Change Agents Future of Travel challenges with rights_review, so they are excluded. Only three existing documents are publishable: the Future of Food worksheet pack, the KWEL Chart, and the Visual Language retrieval chart. The task sheet and rationale are school assessment material, so they are not published; this pack prepares students for the assessment instead. It therefore uses 3 reviewed sources and 17 builds rather than padding with irrelevant files.
Week 1 - What is the issue?
| Slot | Resource | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Brief | Design brief: issue, audience, purpose, structure | Build |
| Organiser | KWEL Chart DOCX - adapt prompt | Review |
| Direct instruction | Issue map: causes, impacts, solutions | Build |
| Direct instruction | Infographic anatomy | Build |
| Game | Infographic Sort | Build |
Week 2 - Audience, research, and evidence
| Slot | Resource | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Practice | Future of Food extended worksheet pack PDF - select pages; external program | Review |
| Organiser | Visual language features retrieval chart DOCX - adapt from The Hunger Games | Review |
| Direct instruction | Audience and purpose | Build |
| Direct instruction | Research and data literacy | Build |
| Direct instruction | Source credibility | Build |
Week 3 - Design the infographic
| Slot | Resource | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Direct instruction | Visual hierarchy and layout | Build |
| Direct instruction | Colour, icons, and symbols | Build |
| Direct instruction | Data visualisation | Build |
| Practice | Drafting checklist | Build |
Week 4 - Test the draft and model the rationale
| Slot | Resource | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Model infographic analysis | Build |
| Model | Rationale model | Build |
| Practice | Peer feedback and revision | Build |
Week 5 - Submit and explain
| Slot | Resource | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Teacher notes | Teacher notes: running the unit, marking prompts, submission | Build |
| Checklist | Final checklist | Build |
| Game | Sustainability Infographic Revision Quest | Build |
Build queue
| Resource | Purpose | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Issue map | Week 1 content backbone | Build |
| Design brief | Week 1 planning scaffold | Build |
| Infographic anatomy | Week 1 structure and parts | Build |
| Infographic Sort | Week 1 structure-matching game | Build |
| Audience and purpose | Week 2 purpose statement | Build |
| Research and data literacy | Week 2 evidence and statistics | Build |
| Source credibility | Week 2 source evaluation | Build |
| Visual hierarchy and layout | Week 3 layout and reading path | Build |
| Colour, icons, and symbols | Week 3 palette and icon system | Build |
| Data visualisation | Week 3 chart choice and annotation | Build |
| Drafting checklist | Week 3 full draft | Build |
| Model infographic analysis | Week 4 annotated model | Build |
| Rationale model | Week 4 handwritten rationale | Build |
| Peer feedback and revision | Week 4 criteria-based feedback | Build |
| Final checklist | Week 5 submission check | Build |
| Revision Quest | Week 5 retrieval and rationale plan | Build |
| Teacher notes | Teacher guidance and quality prompts | Build |
Before you teach
- Choose the documentary before Week 1. The pack is text-agnostic, but your task requires a link to the studied documentary.
- 2040 (2019) is a strong Year 7 option: solutions-focused and Australian. Check your licence before screening.
- Alternatives include The True Cost, Before the Flood, or a licensed Our Planet episode. Check ratings and permissions.
- Do not treat any documentary as neutral. Teach whose voices are included, which claims are evidenced, and what is omitted.
- There is no confirmed usable anchor. Your own task brief is the anchor, and it stays offline.
- The two confirmed YCA Future of Travel items are excluded: wrong topic and
rights_review. - The Future of Food pack is an external program resource. Check permission before uploading or reproducing pages.
- Do not schedule the named student exemplar PDFs. Use only a de-identified model with permission.
- Follow your school's policy on AI for this task. Do not use chatbots or image generators to make the infographic or the rationale.
- Your task sheet, marking key, and results stay offline. This pack prepares students; it does not publish assessment material.
- Normalise US spelling in the Visual Language retrieval chart.
- Keep the unit in English: audience, purpose, representation, visual communication, and rationale. It is not a Science or Design & Technologies assessment.
- Require a source line on the infographic and a full source record in your planning.
Assessment plan
| Checkpoint | Task | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Issue map | One focused issue with causes, impacts, solutions, and stakeholders |
| Week 2 | Source table | At least three credible sources with claim, evidence, and purpose |
| Week 3 | Full draft | Digital infographic draft with source line and action |
| Week 4 | Rationale plan and feedback | Six-paragraph plan plus three revision priorities |
| Week 5 | Final submission | Final digital infographic plus written rationale |
Source: read-only audit of 3,087 resources, October 2026. This pack schedules 3 reviewed sources and 17 builds. No resource files were renamed or moved.