Activity 2 - Why Places Have Colours
Five reasons. Once you have them, you can read almost any street. Two of them you cannot argue with. Three of them are decisions. Hold on to that difference - it comes back at the end of the lesson.
What happens in Activity 2
A 7-minute Phase 2 - Encounter activity. Five cause screens (underneath, grows, light, available, decided), each pairing a close local example with a contrasting example from a partner country. A tap-to-pair matching task with five photos and five causes, feedback always written rather than a tick or cross, and a defensible second answer accepted. Two check questions - one choose-2-of-5, one open text that is never graded.
🎯 Learning objectives
Name the five reasons a place has the colours it has. Match a real colour to its cause. Understand that some colours were found and some chosen, and that the difference matters.
🪨 On the photographs
Every cause screen is shown as a labelled, described placeholder tile pair (local example + partner-country contrast) rather than a real photograph, matching the approach used across this codebase - no external image pipeline exists for any lesson. The five causes, the matching mechanic and the two check questions are fully real; only the visual source is simulated.
- Junior sees three causes (underneath, grows, decided) and three matching pairs instead of five
- Voice input on the C2 field; extended time from the accessibility profile
- The five causes are also available as five photographs with no text, for reading difficulty
- Senior gets all five causes, five matching pairs, one photograph with two valid causes, plus an extra prompt: find a colour in the examples that has two causes at once - which two, and which came first?
- Print-pack card 2 has the five causes with one printed photograph each
- Matching becomes five cut-out photographs and five cause cards on the desk
- Works fine in greyscale - texture and pattern survive, teacher names colours aloud