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About this MicroSim

Evaluate the Campaign MicroSim is an interactive MicroSim for this health-education textbook.

Students critique short, realistic descriptions of

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Bloom's Taxonomy level: Evaluate (L5) — critique, assess, justify

Lesson Plan

Audience

This MicroSim is designed for Grades 9-12. For the K-3 bands the teacher typically drives the activity on a shared screen; older students can explore the MicroSim independently.

Learning Objective

Students critique short, realistic descriptions of

This activity targets Bloom's Evaluate (L5) (critique, assess, justify).

Suggested Use (about 10 minutes)

  1. Warm up (2 min). Ask students what they already know about the topic and let one volunteer describe what they see on the screen.
  2. Model it (3 min). Demonstrate the interaction once, thinking aloud so students hear the reasoning behind each choice.
  3. Guided practice (3 min). Invite students to try the interaction and to predict what will happen before they act.
  4. Discuss (2 min). Ask why the result came out the way it did, connecting the on-screen result back to the learning objective above.

Check for Understanding

Have each student (or pair) explain their result in one sentence, using the vocabulary from this chapter. Look for reasoning that matches the Evaluate-level objective rather than a lucky guess.

Specification

The full specification below was extracted from Chapter 5: Mental Health and Crisis Support.

Type: microsim

**sim-id:** evaluate-the-campaign-microsim<br/>
**Library:** p5.js<br/>
**Status:** Specified

Bloom Taxonomy Level: Evaluate (L5)
Bloom Verb: critique, assess, justify

Learning objective: Students critique short, realistic descriptions of
mental health awareness campaigns or media portrayals and assess whether
each is likely to reduce or reinforce stigma, justifying their assessment
using the criteria from the chapter text.

Canvas layout:
- Left (55%): a short description of a fictional awareness campaign or
  media portrayal (text only, no depiction of crisis content)
- Right (45%): a rating scale ("Likely Reduces Stigma" to "Likely
  Reinforces Stigma") and a text box for the student's justification
  prompt

Data Visibility Requirements:
  Stage 1: Show campaign/portrayal description and the four evaluation
  criteria (lived experience, concrete next step, non-sensationalized
  language, measured outcomes) as reference
  Stage 2: Student rates the example and selects which criteria it meets
  or fails
  Stage 3: Reveal a model assessment with reasoning, allowing comparison
  to the student's own rating
  Stage 4: Track how many examples the student has evaluated across a
  bank of 8

Interactive controls:
- Rating slider or button set
- Checkboxes for each of the four criteria
- Button: "Reveal Model Assessment"
- Button: "Next Example"

Default parameters: Example bank includes both strong and weak campaign
examples, text-only, no crisis imagery or scenario content

Instructional Rationale: Critiquing real-world communication artifacts
against defined criteria is an Evaluate-level objective, so a rate-and-
justify tool with a model-answer comparison is used rather than a simple
classification task, matching the media-literacy analytical tone
appropriate for this closing section.

Implementation notes: p5.js with an object array of {description,
criteriaMet, modelAssessment}; strictly text-based scenario content, no
depiction of crisis or self-harm.

References