Activity 3 - Collect Ten
Ten things. From the photographs you took yesterday, from the window, from this room, from what you are wearing. One rule about naming, and it is the difficult one: "blue" is not an answer. There are about a hundred blues on this street. Which one?
What happens in Activity 3
An 8-minute Phase 3 - Investigation activity, and the evidence-gathering core of the lesson - the same discipline as the DEAR method in pack 1 and the evidence markers in pack 2: do not assert, show where it came from. Ten repeatable entries, each choosing a source (yesterday's photos, a fresh capture, the room/window, or a colour mixer), then four fields: the colour itself, where it came from, what it actually is, and which of the five causes explains it - plus pattern and texture. Ends in a reorderable board of all ten.
🎯 Learning objectives
Collect ten colours, patterns and textures from your own surroundings. Record where each came from and what it is. Assign one of the five causes to each, accepting some have two. Describe a colour precisely instead of naming the nearest basic colour.
📷 On photographs and the colour picker
"My photos from yesterday" and "take one now" are shown as labelled, decorative placeholder tiles rather than real camera capture - no lesson on this platform uses the browser's real camera API. The room/window swatch-matcher and the draw/mix colour tool are fully real, lightweight interactions. In a live deployment, any real photograph would have its EXIF metadata (including GPS) stripped at the moment of capture, before storage - the single most important privacy requirement in this pack.
- Junior collects six entries instead of ten, with one naming prompt word offered per entry ("like a…")
- A student with no photographs uses the room/window/backup local set - never presented as a lesser option
- Voice input on every text field; extended time from the accessibility profile; no visible countdown
- Blind and low-vision students collect ten textures and patterns instead of ten colours, by touch and wax rubbing on paper - the same four fields, on equal terms, travelling to other countries with everyone else's
- Senior collects all ten with no naming prompt, and two entries must have a second cause identified, plus an extra prompt: find one colour that does not belong - something imported, modern, or from somewhere else. How do you know?
- Print-pack card 3 is a swatch card - 60 printed colour patches with a punched hole, held against a real surface to find the nearest match, the way a paint manufacturer does it
- Textures collected by wax rubbing directly onto the sheet; patterns are drawn
- The sheet is photographed once by the teacher to enter the class palette - one photo for the whole class, not per student