Our class map
BUILD Humanities · Autumn 1 · Week 6 · 40 minutes
Today at a Glance
◆ Supported
Put a picture label on the map. An adult can hold it with you.
▲ Standard
Write a label. Say what that place is for.
★ Stretch
Write a label, say what it is for, and add who it helps most.
Teacher Print Tools — Week 6
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
Arrival Task – What we know about places near school
Two weeks ago we named places in our community. Today we put them on one map.
A map is a picture of a place from above, as a bird would see it.
A label tells you what a thing on the map is.
A map with no labels is hard to read. You cannot tell one grey box from another.
Every label needs to be small enough to fit and clear enough to read.
Two people can label the same box in different words. Both can be right.
Arrival decision: Pick a place from the picture cards, or a place you know near school. Both are full answers. You can change your mind later.
On the wall is one big map of the streets around school. It has grey boxes, lines for roads and a green square for the park. Nothing on it is named yet. Everyone in this room can work with this map from start to end.
Look at one grey box now. Point to it. That is the box you will label.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
Starter: A map that nobody can read
Here are two maps of the same street.
Map A: six grey boxes and a road. No words at all.
Map B: the same six boxes. One says shop. One says clinic. One says library.
Map B is more use than Map A. Not because it has more boxes. It has the same boxes. It has words on them.
The need for this lesson is the label. A map is a picture until somebody labels it. Then it becomes something you can use to find a place.
Try it in your head: you are new here. You need a chemist. Which map helps you, A or B? Now you know why we label.
A good label is short. One or two words. It says what the place is, not what it looks like.
Grey box is not a label. It tells you the colour. It does not tell you what happens inside.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
I Do: What makes a label work
The picture shows one box labelled three ways. The first says the colour. The second says the size. The third says what it is for.
Only the third one helps. You could walk down that street and find the library. You could not find the grey box, because they are all grey.
So the test for a label is simple. Does it say what happens inside? If it does, it works.
Watch me do it: I take a blank label. I look at the box by the corner. I ask myself: what happens inside? People buy bread there. So I write shop. Then I stick it on.
Now watch a harder one: the long low box by the road. What happens inside? Buses stop there and people wait. I could write bus stop. I could write waiting place. I pick bus stop, because it says what it is for.
Two labels can both be right. The one that helps a stranger most is the one that goes on the map.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
We Do: Add your label to the class map
Box 1: the small box near the crossing. What happens inside?
Box 2: the long box beside the park. What happens inside?
Box 3: the round building on the corner. What happens inside?
Label first: write your label on a sticky note and hold it. Do not put it on the map yet. Everyone commits at the same time, then we all mark on the map together.
Evidence check
Two people may label the same box with different words. We keep both. Then we ask which one helps a stranger more. That is the question, not who was first.
When the labels go on, we read the map from the top. Any box with no label gets one before we finish.
Changing your label after you hear another one is allowed. Take it off and write the better one. Say what changed it.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
I Do: A note is a label with a reason
The picture has two boxes. The first is the label. The second is the note. The arrow shows the order.
A note says who the place helps. Clinic is the label. Helps people who feel ill is the note.
You do not need a note on every box. One note on your own label is enough today.
Building one together: the label is park. Who does it help? People who want to run about, and people who want to sit. Both go in the note.
A note turns a map into something that tells you why the places are there.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
We Do: Annotate the map together
◆ Supported
Point to who the place helps. An adult can write it.
▲ Standard
Write one note under your label.
★ Stretch
Write a note, then say who would miss the place most.
We annotate one box together first. Nobody writes on the map yet. Everyone writes a note on a whiteboard, then we hold up the boards at the same time.
The box for this one is the shop. Your job is the note: who does it help? Write about people, not about the building.
When we hold up, we will see lots of notes. We keep the ones about people. The ones about the building we move to one side. They are not wrong. But a note is meant to say who.
Then we pick one note together and mark on the map next to the label.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
Independent Work — Your record: my part of the class map
Make one record of the part of the map you labelled. You may use picture labels, written labels, or both.
◆ Supported
One label. Draw or stick your box, then label it. An adult may scribe what the place is for, and the words stay yours.
▲ Standard
Two labels. Write each one, and under each write what happens inside.
★ Stretch
Two labels with notes. Say who each place helps, and add which one the street would miss most.
Check yourself: does your label say what happens inside, not the colour?
Check yourself: could a person new to this street find the place from your label?
Check yourself: is your note about people?
Check yourself: did you keep your label short enough to fit on the map?
Finished early? Take one label. Write a second note about a different group of people the same place helps.
If you are stuck, ask the question out loud: what happens inside? The answer is nearly always the label.
Your home is not on this map and nobody will ask you about it.
Your record is done when every label has what the place is for next to it. Read one out loud to yourself.
⏸ Pens down — quick partner check!
Half way through: stop, swap with a partner, and check one thing on the list above together. Then carry on.
WAGOLL — what a good one looks like
Here is a finished one: label, library. Note, helps people who want to read and people who need a warm room. Short label. One note. A stranger could use it.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
Lundy Loop — Your Voice in This Lesson
🚪 SPACE
Space means you get room to join in.
SPACE stays available.
📣 VOICE
Voice means you get to say it.
VOICE is received.
👥 AUDIENCE
Audience means someone really listens.
AUDIENCE names back exactly.
⭐ INFLUENCE
Influence means something changes because of what you said.
INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
Exit Ticket — Audience receives; influence changes something
Read one label and note to a partner or an adult. The listener says back where they would go and why.
Did the listener go to the wrong box? Then change one word in your label. That change is your influence. It belongs to you, not to them.
Did the listener find it straight away? Write that down too. A label that already works is worth noting.
Next week we look at the groups we belong to. Keep your record.
Nothing goes outside this room unless you say so. The map stays on our wall. You decide if your part goes in the corridor.
✅ Complete
Hand in your record and tick the learner confirmation on your sheet. That is the lesson done.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.