Students will engage in a Language Lab launch and live storytelling session with community partners to build empathy and understand diverse cultural perspectives. Through guided listening, questioning, and empathy mapping, they will gather insights about how cultural stories shape identity, belonging, and collaboration in their classroom community.

Students will synthesize insights from community storytelling sessions to define a clear, actionable problem statement that guides their cultural skits and culture appreciation book pages. They will analyze audience needs, identify misconceptions, and craft a shared design challenge focused on helping classmates appreciate and collaborate across cultures.

Students will generate and refine multiple creative concepts for their cultural skits and culture appreciation book pages by using brainstorming protocols, empathy tools, and structured peer feedback to select strong, user-centered ideas for prototyping.

Students will build and refine first-draft prototypes of their cultural skits and illustrated Culture Appreciation book pages, gather authentic user feedback from a community partner, and revise their work to better meet audience needs before the final exhibition.

Students will present their cultural skits and illustrated Culture Appreciation Book pages to community partners and families during a Global Gallery Walk, gather authentic user feedback, and demonstrate mastery of storytelling, collaboration, and cultural understanding.