Students will launch the blanket drive project by listening to a San Diego animal rescue volunteer, studying photos and care items, and beginning to paraphrase what animals need to feel safe and comfortable. They will use discussion routines to ask questions, build on classmates’ ideas, and connect the project’s kindness actions to real needs at the rescue partner site.

Students will gather evidence from a San Diego animal rescue volunteer and project media, paraphrase what they learn about animals’ needs, check assumptions against real user information, and turn that evidence into a shared blanket drive plan with a clear How Might We statement.

Students will turn research about San Diego rescue animals into several donation-message and collection-box ideas, build quick paper prototypes, test them with classmates, revise from feedback twice, and choose the clearest ideas for the blanket drive.

Students will refine their blanket drive messages and display materials, test them with a representative audience, use feedback to revise, and prepare a clear class presentation that shows how evidence from the San Diego rescue partner shaped their final decisions.

Students will present their blanket drive work to an authentic audience, explain how their choices helped animals waiting for homes, and use a gallery walk reflection to show what they learned about animal needs and the impact of their kindness actions.