Time: at least 20 minutes
Equipment: garbage bag; 2 garden canes; sticky tape; light string; fishing line
Purpose/Topic: Weather—Winds
AoPG: Physical, Intellectual
Diagram and instructions in Mob Programming book, page 41.
Time: 10 minutes
Equipment: copies of the Cloud Viewer printed on firm card (here); popsticks; glue or sticky tape; scissors
Purpose/Topic: Weather: Clouds
AoPG: Intellectual, Physical
Each Joey Scout should cut out the outside of their viewer. Bend the centre of the card and snip, then unbend
and cut out the centre rectangle.
Sticky tape or glue a popstick in the centre of the bottom, back side.
Time: 10 minutes
Equipment: cotton wool; blue, light card; textas; glue
Purpose/Topic: Weather: Clouds
AoPG: Intellectual
Divide the card into 3 sections.
Spread a cotton ball to look like Cirrus clouds, and glue onto the card in the top section, label.
Stretch a cotton ball to look like Stratus clouds. Glue onto the middle section and label.
Puff a cotton ball (or two) to look like Cumulus clouds. Glue onto the bottom section of the card. Label.
(Find an example here, scroll down a bit.)
Time: 10 minutes
Equipment: copies of the Cloud Key/Cloud Finder on paper or light card; scissors; brads
Purpose/Topic: Weather: Clouds
AoPG: Intellectual, Physical
Cut out both circles. Cut out the two shaded areas on the first page. Use a brad to attach the two circles together.
Time: 10 minutes
Equipment: copies of the foldable (found here, you’ll need to scroll down to ‘Three Types of Clouds’) printed on blue, light card; scissors, white paint/’texta’
Purpose/Topic: Weather: Clouds
AoPG: Intellectual
Cut out the foldable rectangle, along the solid lines. Paint (or colour) the cloud pictures. Fold over, and label appropriately (top to bottom, Cirrus, Stratus, Cumulus).
Time: 5 minutes
Equipment: small, light object, eg a feather, origami boat
Purpose/Topic: Weather: Wind
AoPG: Intellectual, Character, Social
Arrange up to eight Joey Scouts around a table (obviously more tables can be used for more Joey Scouts). Assign each of them a ‘wind’ (try to align with the actual directions).
Place an object in the centre. The Leader calls out the wind directions, and the appropriate Joey Scout provides the wind.
(It can be played on the floor, but is obviously easier on a table.)
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