Before nine o'clock this morning you already touched a lot of the world: food, a charged phone, a bus or a lift, water from a tap. Today you map how far that ordinary morning really reaches, the people, places and eco-systems behind it.

Take two ordinary things first: breakfast, and how you got to school.

Behind breakfast sit a farm, packing, transport, a shop, and people paid to move food. Behind a bus or car sit fuel or electricity, a driver or parent, a road someone maintains, and a timetable or a set of keys.

Some of those links are local. Some stretch across Ireland or further. Living systems sit under several of them too: soil, weather, rivers, animals. None of it is magic.

Open the interactive activity. You are at the centre. Fill the four core arms (Food and drink, Power and devices, Getting here, Eco-systems and nature) with something this morning depended on. For every note on those arms, mark whether it came from near or far, and what would happen if it stopped. Clothes and kit, and People, are optional if you have time.

When most maps have at least one note in each core arm, the class will call out connections that appear on almost everybody's map.

Look at the common links on the board and at your own map.

Talk these two questions with a partner, then be ready to share one answer:

1. Which connection would you miss first?
2. Which connection would matter most if it stopped?

Missing something first and needing it most are not always the same thing. If your two answers differ, say why.

You can now map how an ordinary morning connects you to eco-systems, people and places near and far, and say what would change if one of those links stopped.

That map is the starting point for this strand: seeing the threads first, before arguing about what to do with them.