Lesson plan

This lesson plan uses the UCAS Hub to help your students build a shortlist of course and apprenticeship options for the next step of their career journey.

It has been designed to be delivered as either a 20 minute, 40 minute or hour-long activity, depending on your time constraints.

The lesson plan includes the following:

  • the lesson objective
  • suggested lesson activities and their associated student outcomes
  • guidance and examples to use with the activities
  • a summary of Gatsby Benchmarks and CDI Framework skills the lesson covers

We have also provided PowerPoint slides and student workbooks to be used in the lesson. All files are editable, allowing you to use the lesson plan as a starting point and amend it as you wish.

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Download the lesson guidance (45.89 KB)

PowerPoint presentation

This PowerPoint presentation contains all the slides required to deliver the Weighing up your options lesson plan. 

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Student worksheet

This worksheet contains all the activities students will need to complete as part of the Weighing up your options lesson.

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