Civics Remix
CIVICS REMIX
THE SUNSHINE QUESTION · STUDENT EDITION

SENIOR-YEAR CIVIC THRILLER · ORIGINAL SUPPLEMENTAL PRACTICE

PUBLIC FILE / HARBORLINE · 80-QUESTION READINESS PATH

The truth is not
a tweet.
And the map is missing.

A missing public record, a contested development, and a storm clip that refuses to stay simple. Read the 36-page thriller, pause for a teacher-guided Florida storm-drain field interlude, complete six civic-action files, then build a source-labeled StoryMap argument.

36 story pages + field interlude80 original practice itemsFlorida drain-map StoryMapAI bias + reframe lab60% official FCLE passing standard · 65% Civics Remix internal stretch target
The Sunshine Question cover illustration

THE READING RECORD

A first story is not
the last word.

The narrative remains a civic thriller first. The practice layer asks what an answer leaves out, where its source trail begins, and which public route can responsibly receive a bounded record.

FICTION + SOURCE BOUNDARY
Bayhaven, Harborline, Kestrel Civic Partners, SunshineWatch, and the story characters are fictional. Real laws, cases, agencies, and external resources are included for instruction and should be checked for current and local applicability. This experience is supplemental education, not legal, engineering, emergency-management, or official FCLE advice.

SOURCE NOTE / FIELD RECORD

WE STILL DO NOT KNOW:

FIELD INTERLUDE · PART II / THE MISSING MAP

The map is still missing.
Go test it.

The story pauses here because the evidence gap is no longer theoretical. With your teacher, move from the screen to a small, safe part of Florida's stormwater system. Your job is not to diagnose infrastructure. Your job is to compare a digital claim with what can actually be observed, locate a relevant public source, and return with evidence strong enough to build a StoryMap.

01 · ASKCapture the baseline.

Use a teacher-approved AI or mapping tool, or a teacher-provided output, to make one bounded claim about drainage or stormwater conditions in the approved study area. Save the exact wording and identify the tool or source.

Fluency, confidence, and a map layer are not proof.
02 · OBSERVEMap a teacher-approved set of drains.

At approved public locations and only when conditions are safe, plot a small set of storm drains. Record date and time and one neutral, visible observation. Add a photo only when school policy permits.

No touching, cleaning, sampling, entering infrastructure, faces, license plates, or private-home addresses.
03 · VERIFYFind the relevant public source.

Identify the relevant local stormwater office or, where applicable, MS4 operator. Add a dated public source and state what it establishes and what it cannot establish about the mapped locations.

Florida DEP provides statewide stormwater context; verify which local entity actually holds the place-specific information.
04 · REFRAMERun the Human Check.

Compare the baseline with the field observation and public source. What did the tool get right? What did it omit? What changed after human observation? What still requires expert or agency knowledge?

A better prompt may improve an output. It may also be time to stop prompting and use a different source.
05 · BUILD + ROUTEMake the StoryMap useful.

Build a source-labeled StoryMap, or a district-approved equivalent, with the baseline, mapped observations, dated public-source captions, stated limits, and one teacher-approved civic route for a bounded finding.

The output is evidence plus context, not an accusation or an engineering conclusion.
FIELD BOUNDARY · OBSERVATION ONLY

Do not conduct fieldwork during active severe weather or an emergency. Stay at teacher-approved accessible public locations and follow school or district procedures. This standalone reader has no field-data upload or network-submission feature; its ordinary progress and notebook functions may store data locally in the browser on the device.

FLORIDA PUBLIC-SYSTEM ROUTE

Your teacher identifies the applicable local stormwater office, MS4 operator, public meeting, or published reporting process. Use Florida DEP stormwater information for statewide context. Local routes vary, so verify the responsible entity before submitting or presenting a finding.

This interlude is part of this Civics Remix version of the core story. Your teacher determines timing, location, permissions, and whether work is shared beyond the classroom.

AFTER HARBORLINE · SIX CIVIC-ACTION FILES

The hearing ended.
The public work begins.

Each dossier keeps the plot moving while practicing civic knowledge through a record, an authority, a source limit, and a responsible route. The questions are original supplemental practice—not official FCLE items.

80-QUESTION CIVIC-ACTION PRACTICE

Build the record.
Then test it.

All 80 questions appear as formative checkpoints throughout the story and return in a different order for the final mock. Your teacher or approved facilitator will provide scored review guidance. This student edition does not contain an embedded answer key. Correct-answer scoring is performed outside the public HTML and returns aggregate results only.

AI JUDGMENT LAB · TECHNOLOGY + HUMAN REASONING

Know the tool.
Then decide what deserves trust.

This lab makes the technology objective explicit. Students identify what a tool is doing, examine where bias or omission could enter, preserve the original output, reframe the question, verify the claim with another kind of evidence, and decide whether AI is still the right tool for the next step.

AI TOOL LENS · WHAT IS THE MACHINE DOING?

Identify the tool before evaluating its answer.

Choose the closest tool type. The lens shows what that technology generally does, where error or bias can enter, and what its output does not prove by itself.

BIAS DETECTOR · FACT + REFRAME

Interrogate the first answer.

Bias is not assumed. Students look for framing, missing context, source limits, and unsupported certainty, then identify what should be verified before acting.

HUMAN CHECKWhat does the tool say? What can it not know from the information it has? What human or public evidence is needed before anyone acts?
REFRAME LAB · BETTER QUESTION OR BETTER SOURCE?

Change the frame, then choose the next source.

A reframe should test an assumption or surface missing context, not manipulate the tool toward a preferred conclusion.

FACULTY-GUIDED GIS STORYMAP STUDIO

A map is not proof.
It is an argument with sources.

The field interlude becomes a teacher-managed Florida evidence workflow. Students preserve an AI or mapping baseline, map a small teacher-approved set of drains at safe public locations, add dated public evidence, run a Human Check, and build a StoryMap or district-approved equivalent that identifies an appropriate civic route. Every layer gets a source caption and a stated limit.

“A map is not proof by itself. It is an argument about what belongs together. Show the source, name the gap, and explain the limit.”— Fictional studio guide

SOURCE & ATTRIBUTION LEDGER

Assessment referenceOfficial FCLE format and passing standardUse only to frame the 80-item format and the 60% official passing standard; do not copy released sample items into instruction.Public-system referenceFlorida stormwater contextUse to distinguish a safe visual observation from an engineering diagnosis or cleanup direction.StoryMap production referenceMap-and-photo restoration narrativeInspired the before/after evidence sequence and map-plus-photo narrative structure; no source content is reproduced here.StoryMap production referencePublic ArcGIS StoryMap structureInspired the layered map narrative and source-caption approach; no source content is reproduced here.
ACTIVE STUDIO CARD

This standalone file has no field-data upload or network-submission feature. Ordinary progress and notebook functions may store data locally in the browser. Fieldwork is teacher-managed: no active severe-weather fieldwork, private-home addresses, faces, water samples, diagnoses, infrastructure entry, or public posting without approval.

READINESS EVIDENCE · NOT A GUARANTEE

Show the route to
60%.

FDOE states the FCLE passing standard as 60% correct. On this 80-item one-point practice form, 48/80 is the mathematical equivalent and is used only as a supplemental benchmark. This original practice path uses that threshold as a readiness benchmark only. It cannot predict an individual official result or demonstrate a pass-rate gain until a district pilot measures one. Format reference: Florida Department of Education 2026–27 FCLE Fact Sheet.

CIVICS REMIX AI-READINESS SELF-CHECK · PRE / POST

Can you direct the technology and keep the judgment human?

Complete PRE before the experience and POST after the capstone. Rate yourself from 1 (not yet) to 4 (I can explain and demonstrate it). This is a Civics Remix reflection tool, not a validated assessment and not an aiEDU instrument.

COMPETENCY
PRE
POST

Use aggregate pre/post patterns only as descriptive pilot evidence unless a research partner validates the instrument and study design. Do not treat a self-rating change as proof of learning by itself.

CURRENT PRACTICE POINTS
0/80

Not an official FCLE score or score guarantee.

FOUR-DOMAIN PROFILE
DISTRICT PILOT EVIDENCE PROTOCOL
  1. Baseline: administer this original supplemental 80-question practice form.
  2. Experience: record dossier, GIS-card, AI-lab, field/capstone, and teacher-review completion.
  3. Post: use the final supplemental mock as a within-program check. A research pilot should pre-specify the pre/post design and account for repeated-item practice effects.
  4. Outcome: districts may later compare approved official FCLE outcomes under their privacy rules and an appropriate evaluation design.

Report cohort size, missing data, and subgroup results. Do not claim a pass-rate increase before the pilot produces evidence.

FINAL 80-QUESTION SUPPLEMENTAL MOCK

The story is over.
Now make your record.

Answer all 80 original questions as a fresh final mock. It opens after all 80 formative story checkpoints are completed. Civics Remix uses a 65% internal readiness target (52/80); Florida’s official FCLE passing standard is 60% correct. On this 80-item one-point practice form, 48/80 is the equivalent internal benchmark. A 48/80 result is a supplemental readiness benchmark only—not an official FCLE outcome.

READING RECORD INCOMPLETE

Complete the story questions and all civic-action files to open the final mock.

FINAL MOCK / 80 ORIGINAL ITEMS
FINAL PRACTICE SCOREPending submission48/80 is Civics Remix’s equivalent benchmark on this 80-item one-point practice form; FDOE states the official standard as 60% correct.

THE REAL-WORLD FINISH · FLORIDA FIELD OUTPUT

From story
to civic evidence.

This student edition has no field-data upload feature and contains no embedded answer key or option-specific correctness rationales. The only assessment network request is the final mock’s secure scoring request, which sends question IDs and selected option numbers and returns aggregate results only. Your teacher manages any fieldwork, StoryMap, permissions, and civic submission through approved school or district systems.

FLORIDA DRAIN MAP + STORYMAP · TEACHER REVIEW REQUIRED

Build the Florida drain-map StoryMap after the final mock.

Use the teacher-approved drain observations from the field interlude, then organize the AI baseline, mapped evidence, dated public source, Human Check, and an appropriate civic route.

Any certificate, portfolio publication, or external submission should follow the school or district’s approval, privacy, and verification procedures.
CIVIC ACTION BUILDER · EVIDENCE → AUTHORITY → ACTION

Choose the action that fits the evidence.

Civic action is not the same as taking a side. Identify what the evidence supports, who has authority, and which bounded action is appropriate. “No action yet” is a valid outcome when more evidence is required.

Teacher approval controls whether anything leaves the classroom. Protect student privacy and private addresses; use official public processes and district-approved accounts where required.
MY CIVIC CASE FILE · EVIDENCE OF THE THINKING

Make the reasoning trail visible.

Your Case File assembles the evidence you created in this browser session: highlighted story pages, Field Notebook entries, AI Bias + Reframe Lab, self-check, civic action, and progress. It is not uploaded anywhere by this standalone file.

Exports may contain student-generated notes. Follow school or district rules before saving, sharing, or publishing them.