Launch
Students will investigate low-speed collision phenomena, connect the driving questions to school entrance safety, and launch the project by generating evidence-based wonderings, initial system models, and a short voice reflection about predictions, uncertainty, and team decision-making.
Day 1
πŸš— Rearview Reality Check
Launch 85m
Empathy & Assumptions
Students will gather direct user evidence about school entrance traffic, connect stakeholder experiences to force, impulse, and momentum ideas, and turn observations and interview data into a draft design brief with testable assumptions and a physics-grounded How Might We statement.
Days 2 - 5
πŸ—ΊοΈ Entrance Flow Physics Mini-Clinic
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
🎀 Driver and Staff Field Interviews
Community Experience 85m
πŸ“Š Momentum Assumptions Evidence Sort
Deliverable 100m
🧭 Design Brief Checkpoint
Assessment 85m
Prototype & Showcase
Students will converge on one school-entrance safety direction, build and revise a low-fidelity prototype through two documented feedback cycles, and prepare a stakeholder-facing validation set that connects user evidence with force, impulse, and momentum reasoning.
Days 6 - 9
🧭 Safety Feature Decision Matrix
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
πŸ› οΈ Cart Impact Prototype Build
Project Work 85m
πŸ” Peer Critique and Revision Loop
Deliverable 85m
🎀 Stakeholder Validation Board
Assessment 85m
Showcase
Students will present their school entrance safety proposals to an authentic audience through a public gallery walk, gather stakeholder feedback on how well their recommendations use force, impulse, and momentum evidence, and record a short voice reflection about how their ideas changed through testing, critique, and revision.
Day 10
🚦 Entrance Safety Gallery Walk
Assessment 85m