Every subtopic of DP Creativity, Activity, Service, ready to teach.

Across 9 lessons and 3 topics, this unit examines each CAS strand in turn: Activity (physical skills, healthy lifestyle, and purposeful physical challenge), Creativity (designing works, expressing ideas, and imaginative problem-solving), and Service (direct, indirect, and advocacy-based engagement with communities).

Skills & assessment. Lessons develop students' ability to identify appropriate CAS activities for each strand, articulate the key concepts — including development, creativity, and service as reciprocal engagement — and distinguish between the three forms of service. Each lesson includes a student worksheet and mark scheme to support advisor-led discussion and student self-assessment.

Across 14 lessons and 7 topics, this unit works through each of the seven CAS learning outcomes: identifying strengths and areas for growth, initiating and planning experiences, demonstrating collaboration, undertaking challenges, showing commitment and perseverance, engaging with issues of global significance, and recognising the ethics of choices and actions.

Skills & assessment. Lessons support students in linking their CAS experiences to specific learning outcomes, using structured self-appraisal, goal-setting, and ethical reasoning. Key concepts — including identity, development, collaboration, global significance, and ethics — provide the conceptual framework, and each lesson ships with a worksheet and mark scheme to scaffold advisor-led reflection.

Across 10 lessons and 5 topics, this unit guides students and advisors through each stage of the CAS process: Investigation (identifying interests and researching opportunities), Preparation (risk assessment, planning, and role allocation), Action (implementing experiences and responding to unforeseen challenges), Reflection (ongoing and multimodal), and Demonstration (articulating growth through the portfolio and other audiences).

Skills & assessment. Lessons develop the practical and reflective competencies students need at each stage, with a focus on initiative, agency, responsibility, and self-directed meaning-making. Key concepts — including inquiry, responsibility, action, and reflection — anchor each topic, and lesson materials support both in-class teaching and independent student use.

Across 4 lessons and 2 topics, this unit addresses the two central demands of the CAS Project: selecting a theme connected to a genuine local or global need and evaluating impact and sustainability, and planning and executing a collaborative project that combines two or more CAS strands within a defined timeline with assigned roles.

Skills & assessment. Lessons develop students' ability to identify authentic community needs, apply the key concepts of agency and service as action, and manage collaborative processes effectively. Lesson materials support advisors in guiding groups through each phase of the project, from goal definition to evidencing outcomes in the portfolio.

Across 6 lessons and 3 topics, this unit explores reflection across three dimensions: its purpose and process as a tool for self-knowledge and growth; written and multimedia forms including journals, blogs, video, and photography; and group and peer reflection through structured feedback and collaborative insight-sharing.

Skills & assessment. Lessons support students in moving beyond descriptive accounts toward analytical and evaluative reflection, connecting experience to the CAS learning outcomes. Key concepts — including reflection as a dynamic, cyclical process — anchor each topic, and lesson materials include prompts and frameworks that advisors can embed directly into ongoing CAS supervision.

Across 4 lessons and 2 topics, this unit addresses the purpose and structure of the CAS portfolio — including how to organise a portfolio around profile, experiences, and evidence sections and how to record achieved learning outcomes — alongside the formats available to students and how to curate meaningful evidence that demonstrates authentic engagement rather than mere compliance.

Skills & assessment. Lessons develop students' understanding of the portfolio as a self-authored document, grounded in the key concepts of identity, agency, and self-documentation. Lesson materials support advisors in helping students make deliberate, well-evidenced choices about what to include and how to present their growth across the full CAS programme.

Across 8 lessons and 4 topics, this unit examines each approach to service in the CAS framework: Direct service (sustained personal interaction and face-to-face engagement), Indirect service (creating resources for distant communities and environmental stewardship), Advocacy (awareness campaigns and creative media for change), and Research (data collection, social and environmental inquiry, and influencing policy or practice).

Skills & assessment. Lessons develop students' capacity to distinguish between approaches, select the most appropriate form of service for a given context, and reflect critically on the ethical dimensions of each. Key concepts — including service as action, collaboration, and reciprocal engagement — frame each topic, with lesson materials supporting both individual and group service planning.