Empathize
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.
🚴 Science Spin-Off & Body Observations
Launch 20m
🗺️ P.E. Teacher Interview & Empathy Map
Deliverable 25m
Define
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.
🧩 Heart & Wheels HMW Statement
Deliverable 45m
Ideate
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.
💡 Heart & Wheels Concept Sprint
Deliverable 45m
Prototype
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.
🛠️ Interactive Body System Prototype Build
Deliverable 30m
🔍 User Testing & Iteration Log
Deliverable 15m
Test/Present
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.
🎤 Heart & Wheels Exhibit Presentation
Assessment 45m