Students will launch the transition project by noticing real middle school stress points, identifying who most needs support, and drafting evidence-based questions and challenge statements that will guide later research and design.

Students will investigate middle school transition needs by gathering and evaluating evidence from people, spaces, and school information, then organize patterns into a root cause claim and an evidence-based solution proposal for a transition support corner and help guide.

Students will turn research about middle school transition needs into tested support-solution ideas by studying effective examples, making evidence-based predictions, planning team production, building a first prototype, gathering feedback, and documenting revisions.

Students will implement their transition support corner resources with fifth-grade peers, collect evidence about which maps, help guides, calming tools, and advice cards are most useful, and analyze results to decide how to improve the design before the final share phase.

Students will present how their transition support corner and help guide responded to real middle school needs, then reflect on how their research, design choices, collaboration, and confidence grew across the project.