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Launch
Students will launch the Animal Helpers project by observing campus spaces, naming animal needs, listening to community partners, and creating the first shared evidence and questions that will guide later design work.
Days 1 - 5
🐾 Animal Helpers Kickoff Walk
Launch 45m
🦊 Needs Sort and Question Chart
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🎤 Gardener and Custodian Voices
Community Experience 35m
📘 Bilingual Page Model Sketch
Deliverable 45m
🖼️ Campus Evidence Share Check
Assessment 45m

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Observe & Record
Students will observe campus habitats with community partners, record what they notice about animal needs, organize evidence into a class chart, and use drawings, labels, and short oral language to describe places that help or hurt animals.
Days 6 - 13
👀 Campus Habitat Clue Hunt
Launch 45m
🖼️ What We Saw Chart
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🦊 Animal Needs Sorting Mats
Knowledge/Skill Building 35m
🎤 Gardener and Custodian Questions
Community Experience 45m
✏️ Bilingual Label Practice Cards
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
📝 My Animal Helper Notes
Deliverable 45m
💬 Two Friends Feedback Swap
Project Work 35m
✅ Habitat Evidence Share Check
Assessment 35m

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Name Needs
Students will sort campus observations into animal-need categories, identify one habitat problem supported by evidence, and create simple empathy artifacts that show what local animals need now and what is changing at school.
Days 14 - 21
🦊 Animal Needs Sorting Mats
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🐦 Needs Talk With Sentence Frames
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
📸 Before Photos Noticing Circle
Research 45m
🦎 Animal Point-of-View Maps
Project Work 45m
🌿 Gardener and Custodian Check-In
Community Experience 40m
📝 Problem Card Drafts
Deliverable 50m
💬 Two Friends Feedback Swap
Project Work 45m
✅ Habitat Problem Share Check
Assessment 45m

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Plan & Share
Students will use their campus observations to co-create a simple design brief, generate and compare several animal-helping ideas, gather feedback from peers and community partners, and choose one fix to test next in their poster or bilingual class book work.
Days 22 - 29
🧭 How Might We Chart
Launch 45m
🖍️ Fix Ideas Sketch Cards
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🗣️ Care Message Sentence Frames
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
👫 Two Friends Give Feedback
Project Work 45m
🌱 Gardener and Custodian Check-In
Community Experience 45m
✏️ Revise Your Best Fix
Deliverable 45m
🗂️ Choose Our First Test Plans
Project Work 45m
✅ Problem-Solution Page Check
Assessment 40m

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Prototype & Test
Students will build and test low-fidelity animal-helper prototypes, gather feedback from classmates and school partners, and make a first revision that improves accuracy, clarity, and usefulness for the class book and museum display.
Days 30 - 37
🖼️ Prototype Parts for Animal Pages
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
✏️ Sketch a Habitat Fix
Project Work 45m
👂 Two Friends Feedback Walk
Deliverable 45m
🔎 Try It in the Habitat
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🧑‍🌾 Gardener and Custodian Check
Community Experience 45m
🛠️ Revise Your Animal Helper
Project Work 45m
📚 Build the Class Book Stack
Deliverable 40m
✅ Prototype Checkpoint Share
Assessment 45m

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Revise & Present
Students will revise their animal-helper pages and posters using feedback from peers and school partners, prepare a short oral reflection, compare before-and-after campus habitat photos, and complete museum-ready display pieces for the class book and showcase.
Days 38 - 45
🖼️ Before-and-After Habitat Photo Talk
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
✏️ Bilingual Page and Poster Fix-Up
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
👂 Two-Friend Feedback on Museum Pages
Project Work 40m
🧑‍🌾 Gardener and Custodian Check
Community Experience 45m
🔧 Final Revision and Display Pieces
Deliverable 45m
🎤 Oral Reflection Recording Practice
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
📚 Class Book and Museum Setup
Project Work 45m
✅ Museum Readiness Share
Assessment 45m

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Showcase
Students will present their Animal Helpers Museum work to families and school staff, use before-and-after habitat photos to explain campus changes, reflect on how their actions helped local animals, and celebrate the bilingual class book as a shared community resource.
Days 46 - 50
🖼️ Before-and-After Photo Talk
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
📚 Museum Pages Peer Check
Deliverable 45m
🎤 Animal Helpers Museum Share
Community Experience 45m
🚶 Campus Habitat Photo Walk
Project Work 40m
🎙️ Care Message Reflection Recording
Assessment 45m

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