Day 38 · Plan a safe record someone can keep

Child start: “Make a plan for one question. What would you write down? You can use the supplied records.”

Useful finish: A realistic observation or source-research plan, not a claim it happened. Prerequisite: Day 33reference/Day 36status/Day 37time span. Prepare: Own blank plan, complete indoor archive and optional adult local-source slip. Opportunities: U01/H01/I01/I02(plan)/I03(actual only if performed)/I05/I06.

Complete model: An invented club wants to compare a named Moon's lit appearance across a longer period. Its draft says “look tonight, stay outside until you find it, then fill every blank”. Repair to optional adult-approved familiar observation windows, date/time/timezone/source/view/status records, no Sun or optics, unknown identity retained, no required outing/waking. Indoors, the supplied archive can answer a research question immediately, labelled supplied. A fortnight is not an actual full-cycle collection. If source pages provide predictions, label them predictions, not sightings.

Run:2 min choose a practical question;3 min model one source-plan step and safe stop;7 min route;3 min ask which action remains unmade and what record would change its status. Extend by a helper following the plan on paper4 min, one revision3 min and an actual local source check by the adult only if suitable3 min.

Route1 — Rehearse the method indoors: Child gives a helper one blank row instruction; helper uses a supplied archive note. Actual paper organisation is evidence; real sky conduct stays unobserved. Route2 — Repair a demanding plan: Delete forced visibility/outing, retain question and add possible status/source fields. Route3 — Choose a source-research plan: Adult and child choose a current primary page and a narrow question; adult manually checks scope/date/location/permission, child chooses a useful message from what it actually says. No automated retrieval or outside message.

Notice/next: Method fits the question and states feasible stop/unknown; actual performance not inferred from plan. D-first after this teaching. Home H08; C15–16; X08.

Ready doors

Ordinary example C15 · Another example C16 · Home H08 · Project X08 · Read-aloud · Paper and picture aids · Sky Desk

Participation and preparation · Mapping Sources and reuse · Choose another route