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Classroom activity

Map Your Home

A classroom activity where students draw a sensory map of home and compare it with a partner's.

Ages
11–16
Time
45 minutes

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You will need

Paper, coloured pens, and the video What Does Home Mean to Us?

Steps

  1. Watch the video together.
  2. Each student draws their home as a map of sounds, smells and people, not rooms.
  3. Swap maps with a partner and ask three questions about theirs.
  4. Discuss: what was similar, and what surprised you?
  • Abstract placeholder artwork of overlapping navy, gold and coral shapes.

    Video ·

    What Does Home Mean to Us?

    Six of us, in six countries, filmed the places and moments that feel like home. Then we compared notes.

    By Lucas, Amani, Masah, Priya, Hana and Noah