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Block 10: Unit Reflection

Unit 6 · Block 10 of 10 ⏰ 80 minutes A: Tue Apr 27 · B: Wed Apr 28
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What today is about

Close the unit, and look back across the whole year's design thread.

The unit closes with self-assessment against the success criteria and a look back across the year-long design thread. You named and quantified trade-offs in a Chennai neighborhood the way you weighed competing stakeholders over water in Unit 5, defended recommendations to a planning audience in Unit 4, and read a landscape in Unit 2. The move that ran through all of it: real design has no win-everything answer, and honest work names what it gave up. Unit 7 takes that same trade-off reasoning to energy.

Self-assessment here is not busywork. Reading your own plan against the rubric, before a grade is attached, is how you learn to see the gap between what you meant and what a reader actually gets. The students who do this honestly are the ones who get better fastest, because they stop being surprised by their feedback.

Concepts

Before you start the work

Keep this open. Today is a reflection block, and the rubric is the reference you need.

Read
The Rubric. Self-assess your Sustainable Neighborhood Plan across K/U, T/T, and C before you reflect.
Real link · Foundations
Do

Today's work: choose one path

All paths end with an honest self-assessment and a reflection on what the year's design thread taught you.

Learning Intention: I can self-assess my plan against the success criteria and name what the year's design thread taught me about trade-offs.
A
Self-assess against the rubric (default)
Score your own plan across K/U, T/T, and C using the rubric. For each strand, name the one sentence of evidence that justifies your band, and the one thing that held you below the next one. Honesty here is the skill.
Solo · Default
B
Trace the design thread (stretch)
Write the through-line: how the trade-off move showed up in your Landscape Reading (U2), your Climate Brief (U4), your Position Paper (U5), and your Neighborhood Plan (U6). What got easier, and what is still hard about naming what you give up?
Solo · Stretch
C
Paired honesty check (choice)
Swap self-assessments with a partner. Where did you each grade yourself differently than your partner would have? A gap between your self-score and a reader's score is exactly the thing to close before the next unit.
Pairs · Choice

Open your Class Notebook and type today's entry header as Heading 2:

A: Apr 27 | U6 B10 | Unit ReflectionB: Apr 28 | U6 B10 | Unit Reflection

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What you're submitting today

A self-assessment and a unit-close reflection. The reflection is the unit close.

Self-assessment + unit-close reflection

Two things: (1) your self-assessment across K/U, T/T, and C with one sentence of evidence per strand, and (2) a unit-close reflection: one claim about your plan that held up, one question still open, and one connection across the year that you did not expect.

Submit via Google Classroom →
Reflect

One question before you leave

Three to five minutes. Your answer is saved to your reflection journal, where you can read back everything you have written this year.

The last reflection of the unit.

Today's reflection is in Google Classroom, under Reflection Journal.

Link posted in August

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Preview: Unit 7

Where we go next

Unit 7 (Energy & Sustainability) takes the same design reasoning to a new system: how a city or region should power itself. You will weigh cost, emissions, land use, reliability, and equity in an energy mix, and argue for it in public, much as you argued for a neighborhood here. The trade-off move you practiced on land carries straight across to energy, and Unit 7 closes the year.

The frameworks from this unit (multi-objective optimization, naming and quantifying trade-offs, AI Documentation, designing for a real public audience) do not get retaught in Unit 7. They get used. If something feels shaky, the Foundations pages stay live all year.