🕸️ Phase 4 - Synthesis
🕸️ Builder + reflection
⏱ 8 minutes
Task 8 - Darkness Is Part of an Ecosystem
We already protect air, water and soil. What about darkness?
Step 1 - Build the Darkness Web
Tap two nodes to connect them. Find at least 4 connections between darkness and the living things it affects.
🌑Darkness
🌙Moonlight
🦋Insects
🦅Birds
😴Human sleep
🦇Bats
🌿Plants
0 of 4 connections found
Step 2 - Air, water, soil… darkness?
We already protect air, water and soil as shared resources. Should darkness be protected the same way? Why or why not?
Step 3 - 30 seconds of silence
30
Sit still. Notice what you hear, or don't.
Step 4 - Re-vote
Back in Task 1 you voted on: "Does darkness need protecting?" Has your answer changed?
Step 5 - Your discovery statement
Pick a starter, then finish the sentence.
Now let's turn what you've learned into a real design.
What happens in Task 8
An 8-minute Phase 4 - Synthesis activity. Students build a Darkness Web connecting darkness to the living things it affects, reflect on whether darkness deserves the same protection as air, water and soil, sit with 30 seconds of silence, re-vote on the lesson's opening question, and write a discovery statement.
🎯 Learning objectives
To synthesise findings from across the investigation into a systems view of darkness as an ecological resource.
♿ SEN Adaptations
- Darkness Web available as a tick-box list instead of tap-to-connect; silence timer optional; voice-to-text for reflections
🖨️ No-Tech Format
- Lab Booklet pages 7-8: draw-your-own web diagram and reflection boxes