A finished Annotated Resource Profile exemplar for iron ore laid out on a desk with specimens and drafting tools
Year 7 · Unit 01 · Lesson 05

Why This Ground Matters to the World

One idea must land: everything this unit taught, on one page that makes a stranger care.

The finale runs like a studio, not a lesson. Students become commissioned analysts: a global investment firm wants one page on one WA resource — what it is, where it is, why the world should care. First they grade a professional’s profile against the exact rubric that will judge theirs. Then the studio opens, devices out, and the summative begins.

Spark

The world’s shopping list

Six WA resources, six things the world makes with them — solo matching in 30 seconds, neighbour-compare, class check (answers in the run sheet). Then the prediction locks: WA’s biggest export by value? Reveal: iron ore — and the unit’s anchor number returns: over $230 billion a year.

Say it straight: “Today you stop being students of this unit and become its analysts. A global firm just commissioned you.”
Core

Grade the pro — before you become one

Project the exemplar profile large; rubric on every desk (it’s in the Assessment Pack). Pairs judge it like assessors: two strengths named to rubric rows, one specific upgrade. Harvest a few of each and insist on rubric-row language.

Students who judge work against criteria before creating internalise the criteria. Tell them plainly: “the rubric is not a secret — it’s your map.”
Workshop

The Profile Studio

Commissions lock on paper first — resource chosen, three known facts, map plan — then devices open: Canva, PowerPoint or Word (print template as an equal-status fallback). Skeleton before decoration: headline zone, map inset, three fact blocks, sources line. Circulate for the “so what?” annotations — that’s where the thinking lives, and it’s what the rubric weighs heaviest.

Final ten minutes: every analyst shows one fact + its annotation to a partner for a fact-check-and-so-what test. File name: Surname_Resource_Profile.
Land it

The one-line pitch

Two headline drafts, stronger one circled — the sentence that makes a stranger care. Exit ticket captures their best fact with its “so what?”, a research plan naming a checkable source, and the due date. The summative is launched; completion runs across your following sessions.

Teacher intel

Who is your profile FOR — and what will an investor skim first?
Would that fact survive a fact-check? Show me where you’d check it.
What’s the “so what?” of that number — why would someone in Tokyo or Berlin care?
If your page had no resource name on it, would a reader still know why it matters?
Watch for“More facts = better” (five annotated beats fifteen pasted) · “research = copy-paste” (the “so what?” rule kills this) · decorating before thinking (skeleton first).
Running shortTrim the match-game debrief to answers only. Protect “Grade the pro”, the locked commission, and the one-line pitch — with those three, the summative is launched.
SupportPair analysts on one commission; conference at the commission box before devices open; the print template gives the skeleton for free.
ExtendThe water footnote (what Lessons 3–4 taught about their resource’s water story) + a rival-exporter line: who else sells this, and why watch WA anyway?