WEEK 4 | DAYS 1 AND 2

Welcome Mission

Build an interactive map that helps a first-time visitor arrive, find what they came for, and know what to do next.

Your mission

Choose one visitor and one mission. Your map should guide that visitor through three required stops.

1. ARRIVE

Where does the visitor begin? What do they need to notice first?

2. FIND

What did the visitor come to find, use, or understand?

3. GET HELP OR CONTINUE

Where can the visitor ask for help, finish the task, or take the next step?

Help someone check in, find a tool or material, and locate cleanup or help.

Help someone find the meeting spot, shared resource, and place to ask or submit.

Help someone enter a public place, reach one destination, and find help or the exit.

Choose another place with a clear first-time visitor and a useful three-stop route.

Name the visitor and what they came to do.
Sketch or choose a safe, teacher-approved background image.
Mark the three required stops: arrive, find, and get help or continue.
Plan a short tag title and useful information for each stop.
List the source for any photo, video, audio, or outside information you plan to use.

Planning stem: My map helps a first-time ___ complete ___.

Word bank: visitor · audience · arrive · destination · landmark · route · help · next step

Open ThingLink through the group or class route your teacher gives you.
Upload your background image. Add at least three purposeful tags.
Use descriptive tag titles. Name the stop or action instead of writing “Click here.”
Add useful text, media, or a link. Credit media and information you did not create.
Ask a partner to complete the visit without coaching. Revise one confusing moment.
Use the share setting your teacher assigns. Test the viewer link, then submit it in Canvas.

Feedback stem: I expected to ___, but I got stuck when ___.

Revision stem: I changed ___ so the visitor can ___.

Use a public, composite, fictional, or teacher-approved place. Leave out information that should not be shared.

No door codes, private schedules, restricted areas, or security details
No identifiable student photos, video, or audio without documented permission
Do not make the project public unless your teacher tells you to use a public share setting

One named first-time visitor and one mission
Three required stops: arrive, find, and get help or continue
A readable background and at least three purposeful tags
Descriptive tag titles, working media or links, and source credit
Alt text for the background and meaningful images, plus captions or a transcript for audio and video
One revision based on a partner test
A working viewer link submitted in Canvas

Use your teacher’s group or class route when you are ready to create.

Open ThingLink Explore a class example