Students will step into the roles of samurai, peasants, artisans, and merchants through a marketplace launch and then gather evidence from artifacts, maps, and role cards to begin understanding how each group’s work supported the whole community.

Students will sort evidence from their marketplace experience and sources, identify patterns of need and dependence among samurai, peasants, artisans, and merchants, and turn those patterns into a clear team problem statement that will guide their museum exhibit design.

Students will generate several exhibit and model ideas, compare them to user needs and evidence about feudal Japan, and choose a strong direction for their team’s interdependence museum exhibit.

Students will turn their research and problem statements into a first-draft Feudal Japan Interdependence Museum exhibit by studying effective model and label techniques, building a rough village map or 3D prototype, and revising after a structured peer feedback round. They will use evidence from sources and role portfolios to show how samurai, peasants, artisans, and merchants depended on one another.

Students will test their feudal Japan museum exhibit draft and village model with peers and invited users, collect evidence-based feedback about clarity and historical accuracy, and revise their interdependence explanations using notes from observation, interviews, and trade-simulation results.

Students will use structured critique to improve their Feudal Japan Interdependence Museum exhibit by checking whether their village model, evidence, and oral explanation clearly answer how samurai, peasants, artisans, and merchants depended on one another.

Students will finalize and share their Feudal Japan Interdependence Museum exhibits, gather visitor evidence about how clearly the exhibit answers the essential question, and document what they learned about interdependence, design choices, and revision across the project.