Your site has two pages and a button that gets a reader to the second one.
But there is nothing to get them back.
Today you add a menu, and a menu goes on every page. By the end of the lesson a reader will be able to move around your whole site from anywhere in it.
Open the interactive on the board. Start by walking into the trap yourself: click the button, land on the second page, and ask the class how you get home. That is the lesson in ten seconds.
A menu is the row of page names at the top of a website. You have used hundreds of them.
Two things make a menu useful:
The menu block builds itself. You do not tell it which pages to list, it already knows.
The self-building part surprises pupils who expect to fill something in. Say it before they start hunting for boxes: the menu block has none.
It is in Links and buttons, with the button.
See for yourself why your site needs a menu.
Check: you cannot. There is no way back, and a real visitor would be stuck.
The page names above the preview are a building tool, not part of the page a visitor sees. Say so, or pupils will think the problem is already solved.
A menu at the top of your first page will list both pages.
This is the block you need:
{"blocks": {"languageVersion": 0, "blocks": [{"type": "wp_menu", "fields": {}}]}}Check: a row of page names sits above your heading, and it lists both Home and Hobbies.
If it did not work: the menu is below your heading, so drag it above it. A menu belongs at the top.
Model this one. There is nothing to fill in: dragging it in is the whole action, and pupils will look for a box.
The menu lists every page automatically. If a pupil later adds a third page it appears in the menu with no extra work, which is worth telling them.
A menu only works if it is on every page.
Check: the same row of page names is at the top of this page too.
Same move, other page. The point is sameness: a menu that is in a different place on each page is worse than none.
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