Students will notice real community needs through a guided walk, discuss helpful actions from a mentor text and parent examples, and make an initial sketch showing one way they could help their family, classroom, school, or neighborhood.

Students will gather evidence from classmates, families, mentor texts, photos, and observations to identify a real community need, check their assumptions, and turn their findings into a simple How Might We design brief grounded in user needs.

Students will turn empathy findings into multiple solution ideas, build and test low-fidelity prototypes or story panels, use classmate and parent feedback to revise, and prepare a clear final version that shows how their work helps a real community.

Students will present their revised community-helping design or story to families and peers, explain how feedback changed their work, and complete a brief process reflection using artifacts, drawings, and photos.