Students will experience how biking changes their bodies, interview a real user (the P.E. teacher), and create an empathy map grounded in firsthand evidence to understand how exercise impacts the heart, lungs, and muscles before defining a design challenge.
Students will synthesize user research from interviews and observations to identify patterns in how exercise affects the body, then craft and refine a clear, evidence-based "How Might We" problem statement to guide their exhibit design for the Heart and Wheels Festival.
Students will generate and evaluate multiple design ideas for their Heart and Wheels Interactive System Exhibit, ensuring each concept is grounded in real user needs identified earlier and clearly connected to how exercise affects the heart, lungs, and muscles.
Students will build, test, and revise interactive heart, lung, and muscle models for the Heart and Wheels Festival, documenting how user feedback from real peers and the P.E. teacher shapes improvements to their system exhibit.
Students will validate their refined interactive body system exhibits with an authentic audience and present their full design story—from user research to final prototype—at a mini Health and Science Fair, demonstrating how biking affects the heart, lungs, and muscles.