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Berkeley International SchoolBangkok, Thailand
Your next task: checking claims about drinking-water use. Bring your class and programme context to PLAI™, then shape the draft around what you want learners to understand.
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Berkeley International School links inquisitive thinking with ethical citizenship and contribution. Use that approach to ask learners to inspect claims about drinking-water use before forming a conclusion, noting what the evidence supports and what remains uncertain.
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School context
Berkeley International School
Curriculum American college-preparatory curriculum
Topic focus checking claims about drinking-water use
What are you preparing next?
Give the learning goal a clear sequence.
Help learners evaluate a source and explain what remains uncertain. Build towards that goal with a question, an activity and a chance to explain their thinking.
Your lesson prompt
Help me plan an activity for lower secondary learners about checking claims about drinking-water use. First ask for my year group, programme, objective and permitted materials. Include an opening question, a shared activity and an independent check. Help learners evaluate a source and explain what remains uncertain. Do not invent school assessment criteria or lesson sequences.
Check what each source can establish.
Inspect the two fictional notices. Identify who produced them, when they were produced and which claims need a further check. For this page’s task, prepare the material around checking claims about drinking-water use.
Open the worksheet prompt
Help me prepare an original task about checking claims about drinking-water use for my confirmed class. I will supply the source content. Use Check the source before sharing a claim as a model for the teaching structure. Ask for my year group, goal and prior learning. Check the new subject content and age suitability, offer optional support and leave an independent explanation. Keep source facts distinct from this new task and do not infer school criteria.
Refine the worksheet
Review the new checking claims about drinking-water use task for my confirmed class. Check the subject content, reading load and response space. Add optional support while keeping an independent explanation. Apply the same checks to the actual accounts or sources for the class topic. Distinguish a stated fact, an inference and missing evidence.
Use the source as a teaching model, then review the new task for your confirmed class.
Check the next explanation.
For checking claims about drinking-water use, decide what pupils must explain independently. Apply the same checks to the actual accounts or sources for the class topic. Distinguish a stated fact, an inference and missing evidence.
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Tell PLAI™ what you want to change. Try one of these follow-ups with your draft, then check the result for your class.
Adjust the support
Add an optional vocabulary box and a sentence starter. Keep the main reasoning task and final independent question.
Go one step further
Add a follow-up question that asks learners to explain their reasoning in a new situation.
Questions about using PLAI™ at Berkeley International School
What should I focus on when checking claims about drinking-water use?
Keep the focus on helping learners evaluate a source and explain what remains uncertain. Ask for an explanation you can inspect, rather than accepting a completed answer as evidence of understanding.
What should I provide for this lower secondary task?
Bring the topic, current learning objective, year group and material you are permitted to use. For checking claims about drinking-water use, specify any criteria and support needs without sharing names or identifiable learner records.
How can I check understanding after adding support?
Offer a fresh question about checking claims about drinking-water use without the response frame. Check whether learners can evaluate a source and explain what remains uncertain, using your own confirmed criteria.
Is this a lesson already taught by the school?
No. This is a suggested task to adapt for your class, not a statement about Berkeley International School's lesson sequence or a tested PLAI™ result.
Is this an official school page?
No. This is an independent TopSchool page, not a school endorsement or partnership claim.
Does selecting my school give me school access?
No. Selecting a school or sharing a valid public link does not verify membership or grant access to private materials.
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