Use: This key is public by URL; checks are first-response formative tasks, not secure exams. Accept equivalent design reasoning by drawing, pointing, signing, AAC, speech or adult scribe. Note content prompts, who physically marked/placed, actual edge-contact result and a willing viewer's response separately. No child trial or improvement is supplied.
Check A · Day 65 · Kite Sketch Guide
Held source: KITE PAGE ONE and KITE PAGE TWO are two invented broad drawing sheets, not photographs or a real kite-flight record. The user wants the paper to start at the same reference edge. No alignment guide or physical result is supplied.
Expected reasoning: Two distinct guides such as a thick bottom edge versus a broad left corner, or a pair of page-corner marks versus a long left-side line. The child chooses one for the named broad-sheet user and explains how both edges could be placed; a line hidden under the sheets would need a visible end/label. Real evidence would require school-approved large paper and actual placement of both practice pages, with an observed contact result. A viewer's comprehension would need a real willing person's action.
Next moves: If two ideas only change colour, ask for a different reference location, shape or visible label after first work is saved. If the child treats sketch marks as real flight measurements, return to the fictional source. If “it worked” is asserted from a drawing, ask who actually placed both cards. Adult-supplied designs are logged as prompts, not independent first ideas.
Check B · Day 70 · Nature Notebook Guide
Held source: PAGE EARLY and PAGE LATER are fictional leaf-like practice drawings with no validated date, same-plant identity, viewpoint or scale. The child designs a guide for paper edges; the check contains no biological growth result.
Expected design evidence: Two genuinely different reference-guide proposals; a choice tied to a pretend viewer finding a start; school-approved large blunt paper on a clear stable table; adult safety/preparation; child marking/placing only if approved and willing or adult physical action recorded accurately; an edge-contact observation and one useful revision/question. It is valid to remain plan-only with NOT TRIED.
Conditional result key: BOTH ON GUIDE only if each actual broad practice-sheet edge contacts the chosen guide when that sheet is placed and checked in turn; ONE OFF GUIDE only if at least one actually does not. Describe another actual state rather than force a category. NOT TRIED if no safe approved placement occurs. A page edge touching a guide does not establish the sketch content or two real plant views are comparable. A real viewer response requires a real person; otherwise it is unknown. No prior result is printed. Adult-only marking/placing is adult physical work, even if directed by the child.
Next moves: If a guide is hidden by the card, invite a wider visible endpoint/label and another actual check. If one page misses the guide, propose a different line/corner and retest only if safe. If a child claims plant growth, ask which real dated plant observations, viewpoints and scales support it; none are supplied. Keep Science and Design records separate. If no trial occurs, credit the idea, safe plan and evaluation question; mark material making/testing not observed.