Window Seat Watch
About 30 minutes, indoors, for ages 5 to 7.
Where it works
Works in any indoor space
Who it's for
ages 5 to 7
Try this adventure now:
- A river bending
- Fields in neat squares
- A road going somewhere
- The shadow of your own plane
- Clouds below you instead of above
- A lake or the coast
- Another plane in the distance
Today's Challenge
- 1.What looked completely different from up there?
- 2.Could you tell where the land stopped and the water started?
- 3.What was the smallest thing you could still make out?
Quick Start: What you need
- 1pencil
The Goal
A looking game for the part of the trip that happens above the clouds.
How to start
- 1
Gather what you need: pencil. Nothing else required.
- 2
Head indoors and see how many you can find: A river bending, Fields in neat squares, A road going somewhere, The shadow of your own plane.
- 3
Talk about what you are seeing. Start with "What looked completely different from up there?"
- 4
Print the worksheet to check things off as you find them, and keep it afterwards.
Draw What You Saw
Draw the ground the way it looked from your window, not the way it looks from a car.
Fields look like neat squares from a plane because a lot of farmland was measured out in square mile blocks long before anyone could fly over it.
If you want to push it further
- Spot your own plane shadow on the clouds
- Find a river and follow it with your finger as far as you can see
Print it and go
The worksheet has the checklist, the prompts, and a space to draw in. One page, ready for a bag or a glovebox.