Product submit

Open your materials, follow the steps, then turn in your work.

Finalize and submit your evidence-based public health communication product.

Before lab work: Read the safety rules below and wait for your teacher’s approval. You may read the directions while you wait.

1. Open your materials

Use the materials named in the first step below. Open lesson resources.

2. Start the work

Combine your message, privacy statement, and wireframe.

Show all 5 required steps
  1. Combine your message, privacy statement, and wireframe.
  2. Confirm the recommendation is supported by cited evidence.
  3. Check usability and audience fit one last time.
  4. Add citations for all health claims.
  5. Submit the product and confirm it in your tracker.

Lost your place? Finishing up? You should have your message, privacy statement, and wireframe combined, the recommendation confirmed against cited evidence, and usability and audience fit rechecked. If so, add citations for every health claim, submit, and confirm it in your tracker.

Check your work before submitting

  • Your product pairs a usable design with an evidence-based recommendation.
  • It is cited, privacy-checked, and submitted.

Before lab work: read the safety rules

  • Wear the required PPE, keep the bench clear, handle equipment only as directed, and know where the eyewash, sink, and spill kit are before you start.
  • Human samples and data stay private: label with a code, never a name, and dispose of materials in the correct waste container, then wash your hands.

3. Turn in your work

DueCheck Schoology
Hand in
Finalized public health communication product combining the evidence-based message with citation, privacy statement, revised wireframe, and confirmed audience fit.
How to submit and name your file

Use the submission route shown on today's today's page.

In Schoology, open your course and the assignment for this lesson. Attach your file, select Submit, and check that it appears in the submission.

PDF upload help

You get two school days for every day you were absent, so this deadline moves with you.

How this lesson connects

Keep using what you learned last class: A public health product must aggregate identifying details because a name-free record can still be traced to one person through rare combinations, so protecting the individual requires coarsening the data, not just deleting names. Today: A finished health product integrates evidence, usability, and privacy because a single uncited claim or exposed record voids user trust, so all three must hold at once for the product to count as professional.

Optional: listen or watch a unit review
Optional unit study notebook
Public-health products and risk communication: reaching a community clearly in a crisis.
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Optional review video
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Need help? Warm-up, timing, and directions

💡 Big idea: A finished health product integrates evidence, usability, and privacy because a single uncited claim or exposed record voids user trust, so all three must hold at once for the product to count as professional.

  1. 0-5 minWarm-up: what is the one weakest part of your product right now?
  2. 5-25 minCombine message, privacy statement, and wireframe into one document or package
  3. 25-45 minVerify all health claims have citations; check audience language and reading level
  4. 45-60 minFinal usability and privacy check; fix any remaining issues
  5. 60-72 minConfirm tracker shows Problem 5 product milestone complete
  6. 72-80 minSubmit the product, and screenshot your myPLTW confirmation
Mr. Mendoza's 5-minute intro
  • Today we bring the message, the privacy review, and the wireframe together into a finished product.
  • Final check: is every health claim cited? Does the design work for your audience?
  • Submitting a product that is evidence-based, usable, and privacy-safe is the standard.
  • By the end of class, Problem 5 communication work is done.
Know by the end
  • Every health claim in the final product needs a citation traceable to a credible source.
  • Audience fit means the message and design both work for the specific people you named.
  • Privacy compliance and evidence quality are non-negotiable for a professional health product.

PLTW connection and today's work

Open Problem 5 in your myPLTW course shell and confirm Problem 5 product activities are complete, then finalize and submit your evidence-based public health communication product.

Today's stopping point: All Problem 5 milestones should be complete by today.

PLTW activity titles identify the course connection. If your account will not open, use the posted materials for today and tell Mr. Mendoza. Do not mark an online activity complete unless you completed it.

Course connection

  • Activity 5.1.2 Public Health in the News

Use the turn-in directions at the top of this page. Do not create a second submission unless your teacher asks for one.

Show another explanation or a smaller first step

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Run the lab
Combine your message, privacy statement, and wireframe into one product, confirm every health claim has a citation traceable to a credible source, recheck usability and audience fit, submit, and confirm it in your tracker.
Missed class? Start here
If you are behind, run one pass with three questions: Is every health claim cited? Is any personal data exposed? Can my named audience read and use it? Fix any 'no' before you submit, because those three are non-negotiable.

Finish the assigned lab safely before starting extra practice.

Lesson resources: reading, slides, and vocabulary
Socratic teaching slide deck

The deck carries the prior idea forward, lets you inspect an analogy, maps the rule to biology, and ends with the same evidence decision and exit ticket used on this page.

Generated from this lesson's canonical data with a red-team citation check.

Carry forward

A product must aggregate identifying details because a name-free record can still be traced to one person through rare combinations, so protecting the individual requires coarsening the data, not just deleting names.

Daily take-home

A finished health product integrates evidence, usability, and privacy because a single uncited claim or exposed record voids user trust, so all three must hold at once for the product to count as professional.

Inspect the analogy

A review board sorts scientific evidence, stakeholder needs, possible benefits, possible burdens, and uncertainty before choosing a policy.

  1. Which statements are scientific evidence?
  2. Which statements express a value or priority?
  3. Who receives the benefit and who carries the burden?
Rule

Use science to estimate consequences, then state the value judgment and tradeoff that determine the decision.

Where it breaks

A review-board model organizes reasoning but does not make one ethical principle automatically outweigh every other principle.

Map the analogy to biology
  • Evidence cards map to source-backed findings.
  • Stakeholder cards map to affected people and priorities.
  • The recommendation maps to an explicit tradeoff with a named uncertainty.
Read this first

Driving question: Before you submit, can you point to a credible source behind every single health claim in your product, or is one of them just your opinion in disguise?

What you already know: A product must aggregate identifying details because a name-free record can still be traced to one person through rare combinations, so protecting the individual requires coarsening the data, not just deleting names.

New idea: A finished health product integrates evidence, usability, and privacy because a single uncited claim or exposed record voids user trust, so all three must hold at once for the product to count as professional.

Visual or model: F1. F1. A lesson illustration or teaching diagram for Product submit. Use it with E1-E3; it is a model or context image, not experimental or patient data. What to notice: Trace the labeled system, test, or design relationship and identify which evidence should trigger revision.

  1. Observe or measure the relevant feature in product submit.
  2. Organize the observation with a stable evidence ID.
  3. Apply this rule: Use science to estimate consequences, then state the value judgment and tradeoff that determine the decision.
  4. Choose the option the evidence supports and state the limit of the conclusion.

Real biomedical example: Before you submit, can you point to a credible source behind every single health claim in your product, or is one of them just your opinion in disguise?

What the evidence supports: E1-E3 and F1 support the daily take-home when the response meets the stated success criteria.

What it cannot prove: The package does not support claims beyond this lesson's or any real patient diagnosis.

Vocabulary:
  • audience: The specific group of people a product, message, or design is created for, whose needs and abilities shape every design choice.
  • privacy: A person's right to control who can access their personal or health information and how that information is shared.
  • usability: Use the lesson context and glossary entry to explain usability in your own words.
  • recommendation: A clear, evidence-based suggestion for what action to take, drawn from analyzing data, results, or a patient's situation.
  • evidence: The facts, data, and cases that carry your claim. Opinions are free; evidence costs homework.

Use it now: Choose one decision option. Cite E1 and E3, then explain how the rule connects the evidence to your choice.

Go further, optional: The source links below are optional enrichment. Every fact required for today's local evidence decision appears in this lesson package.

Evidence set and decision
E1 · Source fact

A clear public-health communication identifies a specific audience, presents one evidence-based main message and action, uses familiar language, and states what is known and uncertain without overstating risk.

Limit: A classroom communication product is not an official public-health advisory and still requires audience testing, current local guidance, and review by the responsible authority before release.

E2 · Teaching model

Use science to estimate consequences, then state the value judgment and tradeoff that determine the decision.

Limit: A review-board model organizes reasoning but does not make one ethical principle automatically outweigh every other principle.

E3 · Task criterion

Your product pairs a usable design with an evidence-based recommendation.

Limit: E3 defines the classroom product or success criterion. It is not independent scientific evidence and cannot justify a clinical or causal claim.

PLTW-BFH-2027-04-29 · Simulated classroom evidence scenario

Your role: biomedical design team member

Decision: Your team must decide what the evidence from product submit supports before submitting the lab report named on today's page.

  • Nobody from the intended audience has tried using your product yet, so watch one person use it.
  • Check every health claim for a source and every field for exposed data before you call this finished.
  • Submit the product now, because the message reads clearly and the design looks good, which is what users judge.

Response: State one choice, cite at least two evidence IDs, explain the rule that connects them, and add one limitation. Submit it as the lab report.

Claim ceiling: Today's evidence supports a classroom claim about product submit. It cannot prove causation, diagnose a real patient, or justify action outside this room.

Composite case file · PLTW-BFH-2027-04-29

Reason for review: Your team must decide what the evidence from product submit supports before submitting the lab report named on today's page.

Context: A finished product is only credible when its evidence, its usability, and its privacy protection all hold at once; any one failing sinks the whole thing.

Timeline:
  • T1: Combine your message, privacy statement, and wireframe.
  • T2: Confirm the recommendation is supported by cited evidence.
  • T3: Check usability and audience fit one last time.
  • T4: Add citations for all health claims.
  • T5: Submit the product and confirm it in your tracker.
Evidence records:
  • E1: A clear public-health communication identifies a specific audience, presents one evidence-based main message and action, uses familiar language, and states what is known and uncertain without overstating risk.
  • E2: Use science to estimate consequences, then state the value judgment and tradeoff that determine the decision.
  • E3: Your product pairs a usable design with an evidence-based recommendation.

Measurements: Use only the measurements, units, graph, or counts supplied in today's task. No additional patient measurement is implied.

Figure finding: Teaching diagram for Product submit. Trace the labeled system, test, or design relationship and identify which evidence should trigger revision. This is a teaching model, not patient or experimental data.

Uncertainty: This is a composite classroom scenario. Missing history, measurements, or confirmation tests remain unknown and limit the conclusion.

Math moment
Formula or setup

Mean = sum of values / number of values. Median = middle ordered value. Range = maximum - minimum.

Worked parallel example

For 2, 4, 4, and 10: mean = 20 / 4 = 5, median = 4, and range = 10 - 2 = 8.

Units and reasonableness

Mean, median, and range keep the measurement unit. Order the values before finding the median.

Try it with today's data

Calculate the requested summary for today's supplied values, then write what it reveals and what it hides.

Design record
Criteria
  • The solution must address the stated need in product submit.
  • The decision must be supported by E1-E3.
  • The final product must make the success criteria visible.
Constraints
  • Complete the work inside the 80-minute block.
  • Use only supplied or teacher-approved materials and evidence.
  • Do not trade , accessibility, or privacy for speed.
Tradeoff weights
  • and evidence quality: must pass before scoring other criteria.
  • User need and effectiveness: highest scored criterion.
  • Time, cost, and ease of use: compare only after and effectiveness pass.

Test evidence: For each option, record the E1-E3 result that supports or fails each criterion. Do not assign a score without a named observation.

Iteration log
  1. Version or option tested
  2. Criterion met or missed
  3. Evidence ID and result
  4. Revision made
  5. Reason for the revision
Decision record
  1. Need and user
  2. Criteria and constraints
  3. Chosen option and evidence
  4. Test result
  5. Revision and reason
Watch the trap

Students often think Students think that once the message reads well and looks good, the product is essentially done.. The trap: Reading well and looking good are necessary but not sufficient; an uncited health claim or an exposed piece of personal data can void the whole product. Evidence quality and privacy compliance are not extra credit, they are the floor a health product has to clear to be professional.

Worked example · a parallel case (guides, does not reveal)
Finalized public health product
Completes: Completes the final public health communication product: the evidence-based message with citation, the privacy statement, the revised wireframe, and a confirmed audience-fit check, assembled into one submission.

Final product summary:

  • Audience: Caregivers of children under 5 in our neighborhood.
  • Core message (cited): A yearly flu shot lowers your young child's chance of being hospitalized for the flu (CDC, cdc.gov/flu).
  • Call to action: Free walk-in flu shots, rec center, Tuesday 3 to 6 pm.
  • Privacy statement: We collect your phone number only for a reminder, never display personal information, and report totals only.
  • Wireframe: Title and action button at the top; privacy reassurance moved next to the button after peer feedback.

Final checks:

  • Every health claim is cited to a credible source (CDC).
  • Audience fit confirmed: 6th-grade reading level, plain words, exact place and time, which match busy caregivers.
  • Privacy confirmed: no individually identifiable data is displayed.

Status: Submitted to the LMS and marked complete in my tracker.

Why this matters

This model shows the level of evidence and organization needed to complete: Completes the final public health communication product: the evidence-based message with citation, the privacy statement, the revised wireframe, and a confirmed audience-fit check, assembled into one submission.

Build yours step by step
  1. State the question and method.
  2. Present the observations and data with units.
  3. Explain the result, limitations, and next investigation.
Change it for a new task

Keep the structure. Replace the question, facts, measurements, and evidence. Then recheck units, vocabulary, and whether the conclusion goes beyond the evidence.

Also due today: Submit the finalized product on Schoology and confirm in your tracker.

See the full worked example
Portal terms
CER:
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: make a claim, back it with evidence, explain your reasoning.
SOP:
Standard Operating Procedure, the exact steps to follow (especially in a lab).
Tracker:
Your PLTW progress log where you record completed evidence.
myPLTW:
The PLTW course site where you do the online activities. Find it in Clever with your Microsoft sign-in, right next to Schoology.
This unit's vocabulary
usability

Tap the speaker to hear a term. Add two of these to your notebook glossary with a definition and an example in your own words.

Build your vocabulary · optional, for extra credit

Pick just 2 or 3 words from today and make them yours: write what each one means in your own words, name the context clue or evidence that helped, then give one example from what you actually did in Product submit. Try your own words first; the glossary is there if you get stuck. This is voluntary and counts as extra credit, so keep it short.

audience
privacy
usability
recommendation
evidence

Saved on this device. Show Mr. Mendoza or add these to your notebook glossary to claim the extra credit.

Connected learning centerMeasles: More Than a RashBI: Repair the evidence display. Use this case to apply today's lesson to verified outbreak evidence.
Teacher-posted resources

Classroom documents for this lesson are posted in Schoology. Open Clever, then Schoology, and find each one by the name shown on its card.

Use during lessonFor: Everyone
BI Problem 5A Mission File (Botulism)
worksheet/handoutPosted in Schoology
Open in Schoology

Open this when the class reaches this activity and use it to complete the required lesson artifact.

Placement rationale

Matched product and grant proposal by path:Biomedical-Innovations/Problem-5_Public-Health-Issue/00_Problem-Overview; keywords:public health. Score 138. Visibility: student-schoology (student-facing resource; link through Schoology rather than local path).

Use during lessonFor: Everyone
BI Problem 5B Mission File (High Fever)
worksheet/handoutPosted in Schoology
Open in Schoology

Open this when the class reaches this activity and use it to complete the required lesson artifact.

Placement rationale

Matched product and grant proposal by path:Biomedical-Innovations/Problem-5_Public-Health-Issue/00_Problem-Overview; keywords:public health. Score 138. Visibility: student-schoology (student-facing resource; link through Schoology rather than local path).

Extension / challengeFor: Ready to go deeper
BI 5.1.2 Public Health Article Organizer
reading/referencePosted in Schoology
Open in Schoology

Use this after the required lesson work when you are ready for a harder application or a deeper connection.

Placement rationale

Matched product and grant proposal by path:Biomedical-Innovations/Problem-5_Public-Health-Issue/5.1_Public-Health-Issue; keywords:public health. Score 134. Visibility: student-schoology (student-facing resource; link through Schoology rather than local path).

Sign in to Clever with your district Microsoft account to open Schoology or myPLTW. Follow today's posted steps. If myPLTW will not open, use the posted alternative and tell Mr. Mendoza. Turn in your completed work through the Schoology assignment.

Practice: try a question, then check your answer

Claim ceiling for this check: Today's evidence supports a classroom claim about product submit. It cannot prove causation, diagnose a real patient, or justify action outside this room.

Quick self-check · commit, then reveal

Your product reads clearly, looks clean, and passes usability. But one health claim has no citation. Is it ready to submit, and why?

How sure are you?

Write an answer and pick a confidence to unlock the key.

Cumulative WebXam review · flash practice

Fast retrieval with instant answers, not the commit-then-reveal check above. Try each from memory first: write what you remember about the earlier units, then check yourself here.

Tap an answer to check it · nothing is recorded or graded
[Review: Validating Your Prototype: literature review, decision matrices, and metrics] A team uses a decision matrix to choose among prototype designs. What is the main purpose of this tool?
[Review: Environmental Exposure: pathways, dose, and public-health risk] When assessing the risk of a pollutant to a community, which two factors must be considered together?
[Review: Investigating an Outbreak: line lists, incidence, and intervention design] Which pair of terms correctly describes the difference between morbidity and mortality?
A team is designing a public health flyer about flu prevention for elementary school children. What is the most important design consideration?
Missed class or ready for more?
🔬 Pre-lab simulation

Run this before you touch the bench. It is built from the real lab procedure, so the decisions you make here are the ones you will make with the equipment in your hands.

Global Health Metrics
Open the simulation →
Lab · prepare, conduct, complete
1Prepare
Pre-lab pass · clear all six to go to the bench
0/6

I can name the procedure's purpose and the evidence I will record. I can state today's specific hazards and the control for each. If this deck does not name them, I ask Mr. Mendoza before I touch anything. My data table is ready before materials are handled.

Finish the checklist before you handle any material.

Safety · specific to today's hazards
  • Wear the required PPE, keep the bench clear, handle equipment only as directed, and know where the eyewash, sink, and spill kit are before you start.
  • Human samples and data stay private: label with a code, never a name, and dispose of materials in the correct waste container, then wash your hands.
Review Lab Safety (rules, PPE, SDS, emergencies) and check your contract + test
2Conduct (Argument-Driven Inquiry)
  1. 1Before materials are handled, identify the purpose, variables or comparison, controls, measurement units, and stop-work condition.
  2. 2Combine your message, privacy statement, and wireframe.
  3. 3Confirm the recommendation is supported by cited evidence.
  4. 4Check usability and audience fit one last time.
  5. 5Add citations for all health claims.
  6. 6Submit the product and confirm it in your tracker.
  7. 7Record each result in the prepared table before interpreting it. Mark missing, repeated, or invalid results truthfully.
  8. 8Complete the named cleanup and waste route, remove PPE safely, wash hands when required, and confirm the station is ready for the next group.
Prepare this data table before materials are handled
Trial or sample IDIndependent conditionMeasured result with unitsObservation before interpretationQuality-control note
     
     
     
3Complete
Argue from your evidence, then compare what you predicted to what happened. Error analysis names a specific method limit, never "human error".
You predicted

Before the procedure, predict the result and cite the rule behind the prediction.

What actually happened

After the procedure, compare the result with the prediction and name one limitation or source of uncertainty.

Your lab report is graded on the rubric below, with extra weight on error analysis and method.
Where this leads: careers
What to do if you were absent
If YOU are absent

Today is individual work you can do from home: complete the same target above, then submit your Lab report.

FOR A GRADE
Open Schoology

Go to Schoology to turn this in. Submit one PDF. Put your first and last name in the document header. Name the file: FirstName LastName - Assignment Title - YYYY-MM-DD.pdf. If you cannot get in, see Mr. Mendoza. Do not skip the work.

If MR. MENDOZA is absent

Class still runs. Complete the online activity above (it's self-guided). Need the concept taught without a teacher? Use this authoritative explainer:

CDC Health Communication
Optional extra credit (async)

You've passed Unit 2, so the optional extra-credit track is open. Complete reserved-unit work from home, including virtual labs, for extra credit. Each item shows its correct submission route.

Open the extra-credit track
How this is graded
For: Lab report: Finalized public health communication product combining the evidence-based message with citation, privacy statement, revised wireframe, and confirmed audience fit.
  • Complete
    Every required part of the artifact is present, nothing left blank.
  • Accurate
    The science and the data are correct and match the evidence.
  • Scientific reasoning
    You explain your claim with evidence and reasoning (CER), not just an answer.
  • Professional communication
    Clear, organized, labeled, and written the way a clinician or scientist would.
  • Submitted
    Go to Schoology to turn this in. Submit one PDF. Put your first and last name in the document header. Name the file: FirstName LastName - Assignment Title - YYYY-MM-DD.pdf. If you cannot get in, see Mr. Mendoza. Do not skip the work.
  • Error analysis and method · counts double
    Name a specific limit of the method and how it moved your result, and compare what you predicted to what happened. "Human error" does not count; say what about the procedure or instrument caused it.