Students will investigate the cultures, stories, and lived experiences within their classroom and local community to understand what should be honored and celebrated at the Culture Carnival. Through art analysis, interviews, theatre workshops, and empathy mapping, students will gather authentic user insights to guide future mural, mixed-media, and performance designs.

Students will synthesize empathy research into a clear, child-friendly problem statement that defines how their class can celebrate cultural diversity through a shared event. They will analyze patterns from interviews, create empathy maps, compare cultural art contexts, and collaboratively draft and refine a Culture Carnival design brief that will guide mural and performance prototypes.

Students will generate and refine multiple creative concepts for their collaborative cultural mural, mixed-media panels, and community theatre performances by brainstorming, sketching, integrating music and drama ideas, and using structured peer critique to move from many ideas to strong, user-centered design directions for the Culture Carnival.

Students will build and refine first prototypes of their collaborative cultural mural, mixed-media panels, and short drama performances. They will test ideas with peers and a community theatre partner, gather feedback on cultural accuracy and audience experience, and revise their work in preparation for final testing and exhibition.

Students will test their murals, mixed-media panels, and drama performances with authentic audiences, refine their work through peer and community feedback, and present their final creations at the Culture Carnival, explaining how their artistic choices celebrate and communicate cultural diversity.