Block 11: Climate Brief Final Drafting + Panel Rehearsal
From your brief: what is your strongest single piece of evidence? Tell a partner.
Task: 60 seconds.
Answer in your Field Notebook, dated.
I have a complete final draft of the Brief, I have rehearsed the 4-min pitch with at least one peer, and I have draft answers to at least 3 likely panel questions.
I can use models and data tools to show how human activity is changing the links between Earth's systems.
"Use a computational representation to illustrate the relationships among Earth systems and how those relationships are being modified due to human activity."
Where this runs:
- U4 B9: Adaptation vs. Mitigation: What Chennai Can Actually Do
- U4 B10: Climate Brief Work Day + Worked-Example Brief + Peer Feedback
- U4 B11: Climate Brief Final Drafting + Panel Rehearsal ← you are here
- U4 B12: Briefs Submitted + Policy Panel Q&A
Assessed:
Chennai Climate Brief: adaptation analysis (T/T) + Policy Panel (C)
On track looks like:
Your recommendation connects a human decision to a system response, with a tool or dataset behind it.
I can defend a claim under questioning, cite my evidence, and revise when someone shows me better reasoning.
"Engaging in Argument from Evidence"
Where this runs:
- U0 B6: Dossier Work Day 3 + Defense Rehearsal
- U0 B7: Defenses + Unit Close
- U3 B10: Defense Rehearsal + Optional Final Iteration
- U3 B11: Final Defenses Day 1
- U3 B12: Final Defenses Day 2 + Unit Reflection
- U4 B11: Climate Brief Final Drafting + Panel Rehearsal ← you are here
- U4 B12: Briefs Submitted + Policy Panel Q&A
Assessed:
Every defense (C strand): U0 Block 7 onward
On track looks like:
In Q&A you use the five moves, and 'I don't know, here's what would settle it' when true.
I can use AI to make MY work better, and show exactly who changed what.
In brief: "Direct generative AI to elicit feedback, refine work, and support reflection (paraphrased)"
Where this runs:
- U1 B8: Goldilocks Report Drafting: Substantive Writing Block
- U1 B9: NASA Stakeholder Q&A Prep: Practicing the Defense
- U2 B8: Landscape Reading Drafting + Peer Feedback
- U4 B10: Climate Brief Work Day + Worked-Example Brief + Peer Feedback
- U4 B11: Climate Brief Final Drafting + Panel Rehearsal ← you are here
Assessed:
Revision Trail: practiced U1/U2 Block 8, assessed with the U5 Position Paper
On track looks like:
Your trail has modified and rejected rows, not just accepted ones; the judgment stays yours.
I choose when to use AI and when to think it through myself, and I can defend either choice.
In brief: "Decide whether AI is the right tool for a task before using it (paraphrased)"
Where this runs:
- U0 B3: AI as a Source + Documentation Protocol
- U0 B5: Source Dossier Work Day 2: AI Source + Documentation
- U0 B7: Defenses + Unit Close
- U1 B8: Goldilocks Report Drafting: Substantive Writing Block
- U1 B10: NASA Committee Q&A + Unit Reflection
- U2 B8: Landscape Reading Drafting + Peer Feedback
- U4 B10: Climate Brief Work Day + Worked-Example Brief + Peer Feedback
- U4 B11: Climate Brief Final Drafting + Panel Rehearsal ← you are here
Assessed:
AI-use log across the year; the defended not-using-AI reflection
On track looks like:
You can name a step where you chose NOT to use AI, and your reason survives a 'why?'
What today is about
Last day before the Policy Panel. Final-drafting + rehearsal.
The first 50 minutes is final-drafting time. Finalize all 5 sections of your Brief. Lock your format (written / video / infographic). Check the three rubric gates one more time: are your Recommendations specific (not "raise awareness")? Is your voice policy-brief (not academic-essay)? Is your AI Documentation specific (not "I used AI for help")?
The next 25 minutes is rehearsal in pairs or trios. Practice your 4-minute pitch + answer panel-style questions. The Policy Aide's panel-role-play mode is the highest-value AI use today; it asks the four question categories real panels ask: cost, feasibility, equity, science credibility. The exchange you have with the Policy Aide before next class is the conversation you'll have with your peer panel in Block 12, but more comfortable to fail in.
By end of class, your video-format submission is pre-recorded (if you chose that route) or you're prepped for the live panel.
Before you start the work
Start with the Watch: a short recap projected at the start. The Read is the assessment handout you work from today.
Today's work: choose one path
All four paths end with a panel-ready Brief + a peer-rehearsal feedback note.
Open your Class Notebook and type today's entry header as Heading 2:
A: Feb 18 | U4 B11 | Climate Brief Final Drafting + Panel RehearsalB: Feb 19 | U4 B11 | Climate Brief Final Drafting + Panel Rehearsal
What you're submitting today
Components 5 (T/T) and 6 (K/U) of the Climate Brief lock today: OPVL on 3 sources + AI Doc log. Plus: panel-ready (or alt-format submitted) + peer feedback note.
Two components lock today: Component 5: OPVL on 3 sources (one IPCC or government source, one local/news or NGO source, one AI source, which is required; each Limitation specific to your challenge; T/T) and Component 6: AI Documentation log (every substantive AI conversation logged, with "one thing the AI got wrong"; K/U). With these in, K/U and T/T are essentially complete; Block 12 marks only the C strand. ALSO due (not strand-marked): either (a) your video-format submission to Classroom OR (b) your panel-ready Brief in your dossier folder, PLUS a peer-rehearsal feedback note: one specific suggestion per question category (cost / feasibility / equity / science). The peer-rehearsal note is required even if you went video-format.
Also today: your Revision Trail: the one-page draft-to-final record of who changed what (you, a peer, or an AI). Template in Classroom; attach it to your Brief. Third run: U5 measures this; by now it should feel routine.
Submit via Google Classroom (link posted in August)One question before you leave
Three to five minutes. Your answer is saved to your reflection journal, where you can read back everything you have written this year.
Bring your Block 10 division-of-labour plan. One of today's questions is about which row of it turned out wrong.
Today's reflection is in Google Classroom, under Reflection Journal.
Link posted in AugustSign in with your school account. Your teacher can see what you write here.