🖌️ Phase 5 - Propagation 🎨 Create ⏱ 6 minutes

Activity 6 - Make Something in Your Palette

You have your class palette. Found by you, named by you. That is all you get. When you can use any colour, you use the ones you always use. When you can only use these, you start looking at what they do next to each other - which is the thing artists spend their whole lives on.

Step 1 - Choose how you'll make it

🎨

Draw

Canvas locked to your class palette

🔲

Arrange swatches

Tap swatches onto a grid

📷

Photograph

Check what's outside your palette

Step 2 - Make

⏳ About thirty seconds left - finish where you are, unfinished is fine.

Step 3 - What did the limit make you do?

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Step 4 - Caption & the Class Wonder Map

One line. Where the colours came from. "Made from the colours of ______, found by the students of ______." That line turns a drawing into a record.

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A pattern that repeats - tiles, in three colours

Made from the colours of Aydın, found by the students of 7B

A flag for a street that never had one

Made from the colours of Funchal, found by the students of 9C

Step 5 - Back to Activity 1

At the start of this lesson you named a colour you see every day and had never thought about. Read it back. Would you write the same one now?

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"One activity left. Look out of the window again, and find out what forty minutes did to how you see this place."

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What happens in Activity 6

A 6-minute Phase 5 - Propagation activity. Choose Draw, Arrange swatches or Photograph - shown with equal visual weight, none is the default. Create for up to about 4 minutes; a soft prompt appears near the end. Every route is locked to the class palette from Activity 4, with no colour picker, eyedropper or "other colours" button anywhere. Reflect on what the limit made you do differently, write a one-line caption, add a card to the Class Wonder Map, then revisit and optionally edit your Activity 1 journal sentence.

🎯 Learning objectives

Make something using only the class palette. Explain what the limit forced you to do differently. Write a caption saying where the colours came from. Contribute one card to the Wonder Map.

🔒 On the palette lock

The palette lock has no escape hatch by design - a student who can add one more colour will, and the activity stops working. Photograph mode reports which colours in the photo fall outside the palette without ever rejecting the photo - "four colours here are not in your palette, where do you think they came from?" is a genuine finding, usually something imported or synthetic.

♿ SEN Adaptations

Drawing accepted instead of any other format at any point
Voice input on the limit reflection and the caption field
No visible countdown during creation; extended time available from the accessibility profile
Texture words from Activity 3 may be used as fills, and a scanned wax rubbing can stand in for a drawn texture

🖨️ No-Tech Format - enforces the lock even better

Print-pack card 6 is a blank panel with the class palette printed as a strip along the edge, plus a caption line
Coloured pencils matched to the strip, or cut-and-stick paper squares - there are only those colours on the desk
Pin finished pieces together on one wall - that wall is the class sheet

Phase 5 · Propagation · Create

Activity 6 - Make Something in Your Palette

3Methods

120Caption max

6mDuration

Progress0%

Choose your format

Create & save

What did the limit make you do?

Caption & the Wonder Map

Revisit your journal sentence

All Activities - Lesson 15

Three Palettes

Why Places Have Colours

Collect Ten

Build the Class Palette

Somebody Else's Place

Make Something in Your Palette

What Have You Learned?