Students will launch the inquiry by experiencing a class decision, using civic vocabulary in discussion, noticing how opinions can change after hearing new ideas, and recording first questions they can investigate about why people participate in community decisions.

Students will develop a simple civic investigation plan by choosing a focused question, learning how to gather fair evidence from voting and discussion, peer-reviewing a method, and preparing source notes and talk moves they will use during the library and guest-based evidence collection.

Students will present their gallery walk signs and voting evidence to an authentic audience, explain how people make community decisions, respond to a question, revise their explanation in the moment, and reflect on how listening and speaking helped their group make sense of the investigation.