Today you finish your site.
You will read it the way a stranger would, fix anything confusing, then visit a classmate's site on their screen.
Your job is to find your way around without being told how, and to tell them one thing that works well and one thing you had to hunt for.
This is a finishing and showcase lesson, not a teaching-new-blocks lesson. No new blocks today.
Work carries forward from earlier in the unit. Pupils who are missing their site still get a two-page starter in the interactive and can finish from that.
Protect the peer visit near the end. If time runs short, trim the finish stretches, not the visit or the close.
Pair pupils before the visit step so you are not organising pairs in the last ten minutes.
Before you touch any blocks, think like a visitor who has never seen your site.
Ask yourself:
If the answer is no, that is what you fix today. You are not starting again. You are finishing.
Keep this as a talk, not a write-up. Two or three pupils can share one thing they already know needs a fix.
Head off perfectionism: Finished and clear beats fancy and half-done.
Remind them there is no new block today. They only use what they already know from the last few weeks.
Name the Apps category out loud when you read the last bullet, so nobody reaches for the plain button from Links and buttons.
Open the interactive. Your site should be there. If you see a simple two-page starter instead, that is fine: rename the headings and finish from that.
Work down this checklist. Tick each one only when you can see it on your page:
If a page feels empty, from Content drag a text block or a picture block and fill the gap.
If a page has no menu, from Links & buttons drag a menu block onto that page. The menu finds your pages by itself.
Model one quick fix on the board: add a missing heading, or drop a menu onto a page that has none. Keep the model under a minute.
Point them at the starter pages already in the interactive. They can rename the headings, write their own words, and finish wiring the visitor action later in the lesson. That still counts as finishing.
The starter has a counter on Home and a text box plus list box on Favourites, but no button when clicked yet. That is deliberate so finishing still means adding the action.
If time runs short, trim this stretch first. Protect the peer visit and the close.
Stop building. Look up.
Go through your own site once, starting on the first page, as if you have never seen it.
Check only these two things:
If either answer is no, that is your next fix.
Keep this tight. Ask three pupils to answer out loud with yes or no only, then send everyone back to fix.
Common snag: a second page with no menu, so visitors get stuck. From Links & buttons, a menu on every page fixes it.
Back to your site for a short fix pass.
Check this last list:
If you still need a thing for a visitor to do, use this path:
Or try the list version if you already know it:
If a dropdown says (add a text box) or (add a list box), put those Apps blocks on the page first. If it says (add a counter), drag the counter in above the button first.
This is a polish pass, not a rebuild. Nudge pupils who are still decorating to stop and test the visitor action instead.
If an action dropdown still says (add a counter) or (add a text box), the named block is missing or misnamed. Have them drag the Apps block in again above the button.
If their button has no action hole at all, they used a plain button from Links & buttons. Swap it for button when clicked from Apps, then put change counter (or add text box to list box) inside.
Pupils on the fallback starter already have the counter on Home and the text box plus list box on Favourites. They only need to add button when clicked and nest the matching action.
Optional extension with no extra minutes attached: a pupil who is finished early can add one more short sentence of welcome on the Home page.
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