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🔧 Revised Prototype Milestone

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Teams use peer and clinic feedback to produce Version 2 of both artifacts: a tighter campaign or policy brief draft and a revised infection-prevention prototype. They annotate what changed, why it changed, and which evidence drove each revision, then end with the weekly team reflection protocol on communication, problem-solving, and persistence using their evidence board and testing notes. This milestone gates entry into the refinement phase.

Plan day
Day 17
Duration
80 min
Grouping
Small Group
Steps
8 steps

Lesson plan

8 steps · 80 min
# What teachers do
1 Launch the milestone by naming the goal: produce Version 2 of both artifacts, document evidence-based revisions, and complete the weekly reflection. Review the revision checklist, success criteria, and nonnegotiables: use peer and clinic feedback, cite testing data, address accessibility, and show at least one connection to historical disease patterns. (8 min)
2 Teams sort and label all feedback from the clinic round, peer response cards, testing notes, and evidence board into categories such as effectiveness, safety, usability, cost, clarity, multilingual access, and ethical concerns. Each team highlights the 3 highest-priority problems that Version 1 still needs to solve. (12 min)
3 Teams hold a structured revision conference: compare possible changes, discuss tradeoffs, and choose which revisions to make to the prototype and the campaign or policy brief. Record decisions in a revision log with columns for feedback source, proposed change, evidence or data used, and reason for selecting that change over alternatives. (12 min)
4 Teams revise and rebuild Version 2 of the infection-prevention prototype using available materials, updating features that improve disease prevention, usability, safety, or affordability. At the same time, one or more team members update labels, visuals, or instructions so the device can be understood by a broader audience. (18 min)
5 Teams revise Version 2 of the policy brief or public health campaign draft by tightening the claim, improving data displays or statistical explanations, strengthening recommendations, and revising language for accessibility through clearer wording, translated elements, icons, or visuals. Add explicit references to historical lessons from the Black Death comparison where relevant. (12 min)
6 Teams annotate both Version 2 artifacts and the evidence board. For each major revision, note what changed, why it changed, which feedback or data informed it, and what tradeoff or constraint was considered. Prepare artifacts for checkpoint review. (8 min)
7 Run a quick gallery walk checkpoint. Teams display Version 2 artifacts and evidence boards, then rotate to leave brief response cards focused on readiness for the refinement phase: strongest evidence-based change, remaining concern, and one question about effectiveness or accessibility. (6 min)
8 Teams complete the weekly reflection protocol using their evidence board, Black Death comparison notes, outbreak research, and testing records. Each team reflects on growth in communication, problem-solving, and persistence, then identifies one next-step priority required to enter the refinement phase. (4 min)
Preparation (10 items)
  • Gather and organize each team's clinic feedback notes, peer response cards, testing data, and prior evidence board materials in labeled folders or trays before class.
  • Prepare a revision log template with space for feedback source, criteria or constraint, evidence used, revision decision, tradeoff considered, and expected improvement.
  • Set out prototype-building materials, adhesives, measuring tools, markers, paper, multilingual labeling supplies, and any digital devices needed for campaign or policy brief revision.
  • Print or post the milestone success criteria and a checklist requiring Version 2 of both artifacts, annotations, evidence board updates, and weekly reflection completion.
  • Create response cards for the checkpoint gallery walk with prompts on effectiveness, safety, usability, accessibility, and evidence use.
  • Arrange the room into team workstations plus a clear display path for the gallery walk checkpoint.
  • Prepare sentence stems and discussion supports for structured team talk, including stems for weighing feedback, citing data, discussing tradeoffs, and proposing multilingual revisions.
  • Preselect a few examples of strong annotation language so teams can see how to link a design change to data, historical evidence, or community feedback.
  • Review safety expectations for tools and materials, especially if teams are rebuilding physical prototypes.
  • Prepare a short reflection protocol with prompts about communication, problem-solving, persistence, historical connections, and next-step goals for refinement.
Student-facing instructions
You will use feedback from the clinic test round, peer response cards, your testing notes, and your evidence board to create Version 2 of both required products: your infection-prevention prototype and your policy brief or public health campaign draft. First, your team will sort your evidence and identify the most important problems Version 1 still has. Next, you will discuss possible revisions, compare tradeoffs, and choose the strongest changes based on data, user needs, safety, cost, clarity, and language accessibility. Then you will rebuild or revise both artifacts. As you work, you will annotate each major change by explaining what changed, why you changed it, what evidence or feedback led to that decision, and what constraint or tradeoff you considered. You will need your team folder, testing notes, clinic feedback, evidence board, revision log, prototype materials, and writing or design materials. At the end, you will participate in a short gallery walk checkpoint, leave response cards for other teams, and complete the weekly team reflection on communication, problem-solving, persistence, and how historical patterns and statistics informed your choices. Your goal is to show that your team is ready to move into the refinement phase with stronger, evidence-based Version 2 artifacts.