🌍 Phase 4 - Discovery 🌐 Exchange ⏱ 5 minutes

Activity 5 - Somebody Else's Place

This palette was made by students about your age, in another country, doing exactly what you just did. Two towns two thousand kilometres apart can share a colour for the same reason, or for a completely different one - that's more interesting, not less.

Step 1 - The palette you received
🇹🇷 Aydın, Türkiye
"Collected by students in Aydın, an inland valley of olive groves and fig orchards, far from the coast. No two of our streets look the same, but every one of them is this palette." - teacher caption
"You've looked at somebody else's palette. Now use your own. Eight to fourteen colours, found by you, named by you. That is all you get."
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What happens in Activity 5

A 5-minute Phase 4 - Discovery activity, and the transnational moment - with no travel and no scheduling. Receive one palette made by real students elsewhere: country, region, 8-14 colours with names in the original language and a translation, texture words, one teacher caption. Three comparison questions, then send one question to that class.

🎯 Learning objectives

Read an unfamiliar palette and reason about where its colours come from. Find what's shared between two distant places and explain why. Find what exists in one place and not the other, and form a hypothesis. Ask a question only locals could answer.

🌍 On the exchange

This build serves one baked-in, realistic seeded palette (Aydın, Türkiye - one of the project's LTT mobility locations, per the source specification's own seeding rule for the first class in a partnership to run the lesson). In a live deployment the platform holds a pool of published class palettes and serves each class one from a different country, chosen to maximise contrast with its own. Sent questions are collected and delivered to the receiving teacher as a single digest, never as individual messages to students.

♿ SEN Adaptations
  • Junior answers one comparison question instead of three
  • Voice input on every text field; audio narration on every instruction
  • Colour names arrive in the original language with a translation beneath - a student working from names and values is doing the same task, not a substitute one
🖨️ No-Tech Format
  • Print-pack card 5 is a printed palette from a partner country, refreshed each year by the coordinator - must be printed in colour
  • Questions written on slips, collected by the teacher, sent by email in one message
  • Two printed palettes from different countries make an even better version if colour printing allows
Phase 4 · Discovery · Exchange
Activity 5 - Somebody Else's Place
3Comparisons
1Question sent
5mDuration
Progress0%
1
Explore the palette
2
Answer three comparisons
3
Send your question
All Activities - Lesson 15
1
Three Palettes
2
Why Places Have Colours
3
Collect Ten
4
Build the Class Palette
5
Somebody Else's Place
6
Make Something in Your Palette
7
What Have You Learned?