Top Concepts with Rationale

In small groups, students brainstorm multiple design ideas for their ecosystem collage and capture them as quick notes before sketching. They create concept sketches or storyboards showing how each idea might appear in the collage, and complete a simple feasibility/impact matrix to compare potential benefits and constraints. Students document their top three concepts with clear rationale, including empathy notes about how a viewer would learn from the collage and what questions it should answer. The activity emphasizes creative problem-solving and collaborative design, and ends with peer feedback to refine ideas for the next phase.