Students will investigate mixed-material sounds, interview classmates about sensory preferences and accessibility needs, and use evidence to create a user-centered design brief.

Students will analyze user evidence and material sound findings, distinguish needs from proposed solutions, and create an actionable design challenge addressing how cardboard, leather, sealed seeds, and sealed beans can complete each other in an accessible instrument.

Students will use acoustic evidence, user needs, sensory preferences, and personal musical interests to generate varied answers to “How can all these materials complement each other?” They will develop, critique, and revise instrument concepts before advancing to prototyping.

Students will convert a selected user-centered concept into a safe construction plan, practice mixed-material joining techniques, and build an initial playable instrument prototype. They will consider how cardboard, leather, sealed seeds, and sealed beans complement one another, then use structured peer feedback to make and document an initial revision.

Students will prepare and conduct sensory-aware user tests of their mixed-material instrument prototypes, gather evidence from peers, make one controlled revision, and retest it. They will use sound observations and user feedback to determine how cardboard, leather, sealed seeds, and sealed beans can complement one another.

Students will use structured, sensory-aware critique to determine how cardboard, leather, securely sealed seeds, and securely sealed beans can complement one another. They will exchange evidence-based feedback, prioritize changes according to user needs and musical intent, and document revisions to their instruments and accessible performance-space plans.

Students will curate evidence of their design learning, revise reflections through peer feedback, and present their accessible mixed-material instruments in a sensory-friendly sound gallery.