Empathize
Students will safely observe insects and their surroundings, collect picture-based location data, and use story and expert clues to show what insects may need and what museum visitors will want to learn.
Days 1 - 2
🐞 Bug Hunt Picture Clues
Launch 10m
πŸ”Ž Insect Story Clue Strip
Deliverable 10m

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Define
Students will sort visual evidence from earlier insect observations, identify habitat needs, and create an oral and picture-based design challenge for an insect habitat model.
Days 3 - 4
πŸͺ² Sort Our Bug Evidence
Knowledge/Skill Building 10m
🏑 Build the Habitat Challenge
Deliverable 10m

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Ideate
Students will use insect observations, story clues, and community-partner advice to play with many habitat possibilities before selecting and improving a visual plan for a model and museum display.
Days 5 - 7
🐞 Needs Before Bug Homes
Knowledge/Skill Building 10m
πŸ’‘ Three Tiny Habitat Ideas
Knowledge/Skill Building 10m
πŸ¦‹ Bug Habitat Choice Mat
Deliverable 10m

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Draft
Students will use earlier insect observations, picture data, story ideas, and community-partner advice to create a first insect habitat model and visual museum page. Through short, play-based routines, they will practice representing habitat needs, explaining insect facts, exchanging feedback with two peers, and making an observable revision.
Days 8 - 11
πŸ–ΌοΈ Habitat Needs Picture Sort
Knowledge/Skill Building 8m
🧱 Loose-Part Habitat Building
Knowledge/Skill Building 10m
🐝 Insect Puppet Story Rehearsal
Knowledge/Skill Building 8m
🏑 First Bug Habitat Prototype
Deliverable 10m

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Test
Students will practice picture-based feedback, test insect habitat models with peers, and use peer and community-partner observations to make one evidence-based improvement.
Days 12 - 14
πŸ‘€ Habitat Feedback Practice
Knowledge/Skill Building 8m
πŸͺ² Peer-Tested Bug Habitats
Deliverable 10m
🌼 Expert Habitat Retest
Community Experience 10m

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Critique
Students will practice kind, evidence-based critique, give and receive feedback with two peers, revise insect habitat models and visual displays, and explain how a change better supports an insect or museum visitor.
Days 15 - 17
🟒 Habitat Feedback With Picture Tokens
Knowledge/Skill Building 8m
🐞 Two-Peer Bug Model Critique
Deliverable 10m
πŸ› οΈ Revise the Insect Museum Pieces
Assessment 10m

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Notice & Reflect
Students will use pictures, models, gestures, and spoken or signed words to notice how their insect knowledge and habitat designs changed. They will revise an artifact after feedback from two peers and share evidence of learning during the Bug Habitat Showcase.
Days 18 - 20
🧩 Match Insect Evidence to Questions
Knowledge/Skill Building 8m
πŸ‘€ Notice and Reflect with Artifacts
Deliverable 10m
🐞 Bug Habitat Showcase Museum Talk
Assessment 10m

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