1-Pager
Plan
By Phase By Day Calendar
Empathize
Students will launch the community careers project by observing local work spaces, practicing respectful interviewing and note-taking, learning from community partners, and organizing early evidence about tools, tasks, training, and community impact to prepare for later design work.
Days 1 - 4
🚶 Plaza Walk Career Clues
Launch 45m
🎤 Interview Stems and Listening Notes
Knowledge/Skill Building 35m
🧰 Community Job Pop-Up Notes
Community Experience 45m
🗂️ Career Evidence Sort Chart
Deliverable 45m

Edit Phase

Loading...
Define
Students will organize evidence from community career observations and interviews, identify patterns in tools, tasks, training, and community impact, and turn those patterns into a clear design problem with criteria and constraints that can guide later prototype work.
Days 5 - 8
🗂️ Career Evidence Sort
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🎯 Problem Statement Mini-Lesson
Knowledge/Skill Building 35m
✍️ Community Need Statement Draft
Deliverable 55m
✅ Design Brief Conference
Assessment 45m

Edit Phase

Loading...
Ideate
Students will use evidence from career interviews, plaza notes, and observation categories to generate several solution ideas, compare them to user needs and constraints, and choose one direction to carry into drafting.
Days 9 - 12
🧠 User Needs to Idea Sparks
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
✏️ Career Tool Sketch Sprint
Project Work 45m
🗣️ Two-Peer Feedback Round
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
📋 Concept Choice Pitch Card
Deliverable 40m

Edit Phase

Loading...
Draft
Students will turn researched career needs into first-draft solutions by planning, building, documenting, and revising simple prototypes connected to real community work. They will use evidence from notes, sketches, interviews, and career comparisons to make design choices, explain materials and constraints, and prepare draft artifacts for later testing and critique.
Days 13 - 18
🧰 Criteria and Materials Match
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
✏️ Prototype Sketches from Career Notes
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🗣️ Sketch Feedback Protocol
Project Work 45m
🔧 First Build Prototype
Deliverable 50m
🎤 Builder Notes and Audio Reflection
Deliverable 35m
📁 Prototype Draft Checkpoint
Assessment 45m

Edit Phase

Loading...
Test
Students will test their career-related prototype drafts with peers and community users, collect evidence-based feedback, compare results to criteria and constraints, and revise their portfolio records to show how user needs shaped next steps.
Days 19 - 22
🗣️ Feedback Stems for Prototype Testing
Knowledge/Skill Building 35m
🧪 Peer Prototype Test Round
Project Work 45m
🏥 Community Partner Test Interviews
Community Experience 45m
📝 Test Evidence Revision Log
Deliverable 40m

Edit Phase

Loading...
Critique
Students will use structured critique routines to improve their career comparison evidence, prototype revisions, and reflection artifacts. They will give feedback to 2 peers, receive feedback, revise using evidence from interviews and testing, and prepare stronger portfolio pieces for the final phase.
Days 23 - 26
🗂️ Critique Checklist Mini-Lesson
Knowledge/Skill Building 30m
🗣️ Two-Peer Feedback Circle
Deliverable 45m
✏️ Revision Round for Portfolio Pieces
Project Work 60m
✅ Revision Gate Conference
Assessment 45m

Edit Phase

Loading...
Notice & Reflect
Students will curate evidence from their career research and design work, revise how they communicate their learning, and share a final multimedia showcase that explains what they learned from community partners, how feedback changed their ideas, and what future path they want to explore next.
Days 27 - 30
🗂️ Portfolio Evidence Sort
Deliverable 45m
🖼️ Future Paths Slide Rehearsal
Project Work 45m
🎤 Community Career Showcase
Assessment 45m
🎧 Reflection Poster and Audio
Deliverable 45m

Edit Phase

Loading...