The module where the school Climate Action Plan project becomes real. Two of the ten system functions — Boundary and Coordinating — become Scope and Schedule in project terms.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, participants will be able to:
- Explain what ‘scope’ means and why it matters
- Define what is in scope and out of scope for their school Climate Action Plan project
- Understand the danger of scope creep and how change control prevents it
- Break a project into activities and put them in the right order
- Identify dependencies between activities
- Estimate how long activities will take
- Build a simple schedule for their school Climate Action Plan review
- Connect the Boundary and Coordinating functions from Module 1 to the real careers of Project Manager, Scope Manager, Planner, and Scheduler
Sections
- 2.1 Recap: The System
- 2.2 What is Scope?
- 2.3 Defining Our Scope
- 2.4 Scope Creep and Change Control
- 2.5 What is a Schedule?
- 2.6 Breaking It Down: Activities
Cross-curriculum
- KS4 Maths — Working mathematically (breaking problems down, sequencing, estimation)
- Life and Work — Writing (writing a clear scope statement is functional writing)
- Life and Work — Employability (Project Manager, Planner careers introduced)
Suggested evidence types
- Scope statement for the school Climate Action Plan
- Activity breakdown with dependencies
- Gantt-style schedule (digital or hand-drawn)
- Reflection on a time when scope creep affected something the learner cared about