Activity 4 - Build the Class Palette
Choose five from your ten. Not the five prettiest - the five that between them say the most about this place. Send them, and watch what happens: the colours that many of you found separately become the big ones. Nobody agreed on that in advance.
What happens in Activity 4
An 8-minute Phase 3 - Investigation activity, and the collaborative component the pilot asked for - achieved without a single group task: everyone works alone, and the result is collective. Choose five of your ten collected colours, send them, and watch a live-assembling class palette - colours within a small distance of each other cluster into one growing patch. Name three colours, see anonymous peer-submitted names appear alongside yours, mark up to three you think fit best, then say which colour is most yours.
🎯 Learning objectives
Choose the five strongest entries out of ten and justify keeping them different from each other. Watch a shared artefact assemble from individual work. Name three colours in a way another person would understand. Identify which colour is most theirs and say why.
🎨 On the live class palette
The "other students" whose colours cluster alongside yours are a small seeded dataset baked into this page, standing in for a real class's simultaneous submissions - this build has no live multi-student backend. The clustering algorithm, the assembly animation and the naming/voting mechanic are all fully real and interactive; only the "other students" are simulated, the same way other lessons on this platform simulate class-wide aggregate results.
🔒 What gets published to other countries - and what doesn't
Published: hex values, student-written colour names, texture words, the cause assigned to each colour, country and region, one teacher caption. Not published: any photograph, any student name, any school name, any image of a person, any location more precise than the region. In a live deployment the teacher approves the palette before publication - a deliberate action, never automatic.
- Choosing five is reduced to choosing three for students who collected five entries in Activity 3
- Voice input on every naming field and the "most yours" reflection
- The live assembly animation can be paused or skipped straight to the finished result
- Print-pack card 4 is the palette sheet - students cut out their five swatches and pin them to a large wall sheet, grouping similar colours as they go
- The clustering by hand is visibly better - students argue about whether two greens are the same green, exactly the conversation the software does silently
- Names go on slips pinned under each group, marked with pencil ticks; photograph the finished wall once - that's what gets published, same no-faces/no-school-name rule