Mission 12
The Weather Watchers
The Weather Watchers keep the weather station, and everybody asks them the same thing: what will today be like? Look at the sky, read the instruments, keep the log and choose what to wear, pack or change, for a class walk, a market day, a sailing afternoon and a night in a tent.
- 4 parts
- 8 to 12 minutes
- Grades 2 and 3
Who is playing?
Each age gets its own version of the story. Any of them is fine to play.
Grades 2 and 3
Market Day Weather
The job: Read the weather station and help the market stalls set up for wind, rain and sun.
- The Station in the Park With a PlayOwl plan
- The Week in the Log With a PlayOwl plan
- Saturday: Wind and Rain With a PlayOwl plan
- Sunday’s Small Market With a PlayOwl plan
For grown-ups: what this mission practices
Matching clothing and equipment to weather, reading a thermometer, a rain gauge and a wind meter in standard units, keeping and reading a table of observations, spotting a pattern or a reading that does not fit, and planning against several conditions at once. Older children compare forecasts, treat a forecast as a likelihood and justify a change of plan from the readings.
- Ages
- Five versions, from Preschool to Grade 8. They are different designs, not the same task with other numbers.
- How it is checked
- Every answer is checked by rules the child can see at work on the screen. Any answer that meets them is right.
- Help
- Olly can read any line aloud, give a hint that points at where to look, or show one way. A report says where help was used.
- Time
- Nothing is timed. A part takes a few minutes and progress is saved after each one for a signed-in child.