Students will explore a miniature Pennsylvania fair, identify how games can teach accurate information, and create an initial fact-to-play sketch while learning the expectations for the community exhibition, trifold display, and playable game.

Students will build accurate knowledge about their assigned Pennsylvania topic and listen directly to potential fair visitors. They will create a team research organizer and an evidence-based visitor-needs map that will guide the playable game and research trifold for the community-wide Pennsylvania State Fair.

Students will synthesize their Pennsylvania research, select evidence that will best teach community fair visitors, and connect a relevant story or folktale when appropriate. Teams will use visitor-needs evidence to draft, critique, and revise a design brief for their playable game and research-based trifold.

Students will generate and compare multiple Pennsylvania-themed game ideas, select a concept based on research evidence and visitor needs, and build a low-fidelity playable prototype. Teams will use peer feedback to revise their game, draft clear rules and labels, and create a three-panel plan for their research-based trifold before completing a prototype-readiness checkpoint.

Students will test their Pennsylvania fair games with users, analyze feedback, and document revisions that improve clarity, accessibility, learning value, and fun. Teams will refine their playable games and research-based trifolds, validate them with a new user, and rehearse booth roles and their design journey for the community-wide Pennsylvania State Fair.

Students will host a community-wide Pennsylvania State Fair, teach visitors through their researched trifolds and playable games, gather audience feedback, and reflect on how research, testing, revision, communication, and collaboration shaped their final learning booths.