Block 12: Final Defenses Day 2 + Unit Reflection
Think back to last class's defenses.
Task: Name one engineering claim a classmate defended well. What made it convincing: the evidence, the delivery, or the honesty about limits?
Answer in your Field Notebook, dated.
I can defend my design under questioning AND name what the simulator taught me that a textbook couldn't.
I can defend a claim under questioning, cite my evidence, and revise when someone shows me better reasoning.
"Engaging in Argument from Evidence"
Where this runs:
- U0 B6: Dossier Work Day 3 + Defense Rehearsal
- U0 B7: Defenses + Unit Close
- U3 B10: Defense Rehearsal + Optional Final Iteration
- U3 B11: Final Defenses Day 1
- U3 B12: Final Defenses Day 2 + Unit Reflection ← you are here
- U4 B11: Climate Brief Final Drafting + Panel Rehearsal
- U4 B12: Briefs Submitted + Policy Panel Q&A
Assessed:
Every defense (C strand): U0 Block 7 onward
On track looks like:
In Q&A you use the five moves, and 'I don't know, here's what would settle it' when true.
This block is a Phase 6 stub
Full content lands when Unit 3 is built out further.
Block 12 closes the unit. Remaining 8–10 final defenses fill the first 50 minutes. The block then shifts to a unit-reflection circle ("What did the simulator teach you that you couldn't have learned from a textbook?"), followed by a connect-forward to Unit 4 (Climate Change), where sea-level rise and tsunami inundation form the bridge from this unit.