What you'll do
You're a travel planner! Pick a time of year, look at the expected weather at four places, and decide where you'd like to go — and where you'd skip.
How to play
- Pick a time of the year to start your trip.
- Tap a place to flip the card and see what weather is expected.
- Find a place to avoid first. Tap "Avoid this place" — then tap the weather that worries you.
- You can avoid more than one place if you want, or change your mind by tapping the red Avoided ✕ badge.
- When you're ready, pick where you'd like to go from the places left. Tap the weather you like best.
- Read the trip summary — and try another time of the year!
What do the four weather details mean?
The back of each place shows four kinds of weather:
- 🌡️ Temperature — how hot or cold it could be
- 🌬️ Wind — how calm or strong the wind could be
- 💧 Air — how dry or sticky the air could be
- 🌧️ Rain / Snow — how much rain or snow is expected
Green = comfortable. Yellow = be careful. Red = dangerous!
Remember
There's no single right answer — every trip you plan tells us something about how you make decisions. Just be safe out there!
Standard Addressed
NGSS K-ESS3-2 — Ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather.
Learning Goals
- Students treat the displayed conditions as a forecast — language throughout uses "could be" and "expected" so weather is presented as a likelihood, not a certainty.
- Students practice hazard recognition: identifying which place to avoid and articulating which factor (temperature, wind, air, or rain/snow) made it risky.
- Students reinforce a four-factor weather vocabulary by tapping the specific factor that drives each decision.
- Students reason about trade-offs: pick where to go from the places left, and explain why.
Discussion Prompts
- Why is it useful to look at the weather before going somewhere?
- How is a weather forecast different from something we know for sure?
- Two students might avoid different places this week. Can both be right? Why or why not?
- What kinds of weather would make you skip a trip? What kinds might be a fun adventure?
- What would you pack for a trip with heavy rain? How is that different from a trip to a very dry place?
- Who else uses weather forecasts to plan their day — pilots, sailors, hikers, farmers? What might they do differently?
Simplifications
- Weather labels are illustrative — not real historical forecast data.
- Destinations are generic region types (Beach / Mountain / Prairie / Canyon), not specific locations.
- The four factors are independent in the data, even where natural pairings would normally co-vary.