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.
- 3 parts
- 3 to 5 minutes
- Preschool and Pre-K
Who is playing?
Each age gets its own version of the story. Any of them is fine to play.
Preschool and Pre-K
What Will Yuki Wear?
The job: Look at the sky and help Yuki get ready to play outside.
- A Rainy Day With a PlayOwl plan
- A Snowy Day With a PlayOwl plan
- A Sunny Day 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.