Students will launch the community garden challenge by comparing healthy food options and listening to community voices about food access, then collect firsthand user evidence through a community partner conversation and create an empathy map with quotes, drawings, and observations to prepare for defining the problem.

Students will sort and synthesize what they learned from community users and class research, identify patterns about healthy food access and plant needs, and turn those insights into a child-friendly problem definition that can guide garden design and poster planning.

Students will use what they learned from community partners and earlier research to generate many possible garden and outreach ideas, compare them against real community needs, and create a clear concept sketch for the solution they want to prototype next.

Students will build and improve testable versions of their community garden communication tools and garden layout ideas. They will make a quick first draft, gather feedback from classmates and a community partner, revise with evidence, and prepare a stronger prototype set that connects plant needs, healthy eating, and community access.

Students will test their garden explanations and outreach materials with real community users, revise their poster and class garden story using feedback, and present the final community garden design to families and partners during a public Garden Walk.