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Little Weather Watcher

Learn the weather, get ready!

A Science learning game for primary school, Grade 1 to Grade 6

SubjectScience Grades1 to 6 Levels204 Free in every lesson10–30%

Little Weather Watcher is a science game about weather and nature for primary school, grade 1 through grade 6. An animated scene sits at the top of the screen — a sky, a seasonal tree, a thermometer, a weather calendar or a chart — and the child picks the right card based on it. In some rounds, they dress a figure for the weather, or arrange the seasons in order.

The Android app is on Cafe Bazaar and Myket, Iran's app stores. Anywhere else, play the online version in any browser.

Little Weather Watcher is part of the Nikipoo School app, alongside 85 other games. The game is in Persian.

What does it look like?

Screenshot of Little Weather Watcher — Little Weather Watcher
Little Weather Watcher
Learn the weather, get ready!
Screenshot of Little Weather Watcher — Grade 1 through grade 6
Grade 1 through grade 6
Matched to each grade's science textbook
Screenshot of Little Weather Watcher — 131 levels across 6 grades
131 levels across 6 grades
Step by step, easy to hard

About the game

What's inside

  • 131 levels across six grades, each matched to that grade's science textbook
  • Grade 1: five kinds of weather, dressing right for each one, safety in thunderstorms and strong sun
  • Grade 2: the four seasons and their signs, ice and steam, a weather calendar and picture charts
  • Grade 3: the three states of water, wind and clean air, thermometers and charts
  • Grade 4: temperature in degrees, the water cycle, weather features, forecasting from a week's data
  • Grade 5: expansion and contraction, heat transfer, rainbows, erosion and qanats
  • Grade 6: the sun as weather's engine, wind and solar energy, lightning and safety, clean city air
  • A Persian narrator reads each level's instruction
  • No blame for a wrong tap — the child is encouraged to try again
  • Works offline once installed

Little Weather Watcher — an educator's view

Little Weather Watcher teaches the child to draw a conclusion from cues in their surroundings. An animated scene sits at the top — a rainy sky, an autumn tree, a thermometer or a weather calendar — and the child reads it to say what the weather is like, which season it is, or what happens to water. In grade 1, they dress a figure with the right clothes and umbrella; in grade 2, they arrange the seasons in order; and in higher grades they move on to the three states of water, temperature in degrees, the water cycle, heat transfer, lightning, and wind and solar energy.

Going from a cue to a conclusion

The child has to tell from dark clouds and drops that rain is coming, or from bare branches and snow that it's winter. This is inference: reaching something unstated from what's observed — a skill also at work in understanding a story and solving problems.

A first taste of reading data

From grade 2, a weather calendar and a picture chart enter the game: how many sunny days were there? which weather was most common? The child gets their first experience reading data on a familiar topic and sees that counting and comparing matter in science too, not just in a math notebook.

Deciding for their own health

In the dress-the-figure rounds, the child picks a hat and gloves for a snowy day, a sun hat for strong sunlight, and a safe spot for a thunderstorm. Scientific knowledge here turns directly into a decision about caring for themselves — a bridge from knowing to doing.

Order within change

The order of the seasons, water freezing and turning to steam, and the cycle of evaporation, condensation and rainfall show that nature keeps changing but its changes follow a pattern. If the child can't find the right card, after two tries that same card gently pulses so they can tap it themselves and carry on with a feeling of success.

A tip for parentsFor a week, look out the window with your child every morning and record it in a simple chart with a small drawing: sunny, cloudy or rainy. At the end of the week, count together which weather came up most, and let the child report the result to the rest of the family.

Grade by grade, what does it teach?

Level titles are listed in the order the child plays them — from easy to hard, following the school textbook.

Grade 131 levels
  1. Sunny or snowy?
  2. Clouds and sun
  3. Umbrella and boots
  4. Lady Sun
  5. Playing in the snow
  6. Playing with the wind
  7. Gentle rain
  8. Travel suitcase
  9. All kinds of weather
  10. Sunny or rainy?
  11. Cloudy sky
  12. A rainy day
  13. What's happening in the sky?
  14. The wind is blowing
  15. Today's weather
  16. Thunder and lightning
  17. Snow came!
  18. Clothes for a sunny day
  19. Weather watcher: five kinds of weather
  20. Clothes for a snowy day
  21. Harsh sunshine
  22. Umbrella and wind
  23. The weather watcher's closet
  24. All kinds of weather
  25. Clever weather watcher
  26. Clothes on the line
  27. Safe weather
  28. Let's take care of ourselves
  29. Playful weather watcher
  30. Grade 1 weather watcher review
  31. Grade 1 celebration: weather watchers
Grade 231 levels
  1. Water in cold and heat
  2. It froze!
  3. Turning to steam and melting
  4. Autumn and winter clothes
  5. Haft-sin
  6. Kettle and freezer
  7. Ice and water
  8. Weather calendar
  9. Counting the days
  10. Weather chart
  11. The tallest bar
  12. Precise weather watcher
  13. The kettle boiled
  14. Water and charts
  15. Four seasons
  16. Signs of the season
  17. Pomegranates and the korsi
  18. The next season
  19. The turning seasons
  20. Spring and winter
  21. Today's weather
  22. Clothes for each season
  23. Weather watcher: seasons
  24. Before and after
  25. The season before
  26. Things to know about the seasons
  27. Swallows and leaves
  28. A snowy day
  29. Four-season weather watcher
  30. Grade 2 weather watcher review
  31. Grade 2 celebration: weather watchers
Grade 336 levels
  1. A closet for four kinds of weather
  2. Dangerous weather
  3. Safe in every weather
  4. Clean air
  5. Thermometer
  6. Reading a thermometer
  7. Wind, moving air
  8. What does the wind do?
  9. Season and weather
  10. Weather vane
  11. Kite
  12. Green city
  13. Weather watcher: clean air
  14. Hot or cold?
  15. Weekly calendar
  16. Highest and lowest
  17. How many more days?
  18. Next week's chart
  19. Weather watcher: chart reader
  20. Little calendar
  21. Grade 3 weather watcher review
  22. All-round weather watcher
  23. The tap is dripping
  24. Weather watcher: grade 3
  25. Water's three states
  26. Dew and hail
  27. Water changes
  28. Air is everywhere
  29. Let's feel the weather
  30. Water in nature
  31. Weather watcher: water expert
  32. Ice and pond
  33. Let's not waste water
  34. Drop by drop of water
  35. Weather watcher: air and water
  36. Grade 3 celebration: weather watchers
Grade 436 levels
  1. Air for life
  2. Condensation
  3. Air takes up space
  4. Precipitation
  5. The water cycle
  6. The sun and the cycle
  7. The cycle starts again
  8. Snow and rain
  9. Hot and cold in degrees
  10. Melting and freezing
  11. It's hot!
  12. Plate and bottle
  13. Steamy mirror
  14. Cloud and steam
  15. Weather watcher: the water cycle
  16. The power of air
  17. Weather watcher: our air
  18. Smoke and feather
  19. This week's data
  20. Ten days of data
  21. Data-digging weather watcher
  22. Fog and hail
  23. Evaporation
  24. Weather watcher: grade 4
  25. Degrees of temperature
  26. Warmer, colder
  27. Zero and one hundred
  28. Weather watcher: thermometer reader
  29. The temperature changed
  30. Temperatures in a row
  31. Morning and night temperatures
  32. Weather watcher: steam and droplets
  33. Warm air, wind
  34. Tomorrow's forecast
  35. The week's forecast
  36. Grade 4 celebration: weather watchers
Grade 535 levels
  1. Weather watcher: grade 5
  2. Temperature and changing materials
  3. Where does the heat go?
  4. Highest and lowest temperature
  5. Night and day temperatures
  6. The sun's heat
  7. Warm air and wind
  8. Heat conductors and insulators
  9. Freezing and rusting
  10. Weather watcher: heat expert
  11. A hot thermometer
  12. Spoon and pot
  13. Weather watcher: heat transfer
  14. Light-colored clothes
  15. Desert house
  16. Drip irrigation
  17. Weather data
  18. A month of data
  19. Qanat (underground water channel)
  20. Rainbow
  21. Sun behind you
  22. Sky-watching weather watcher
  23. Thunder and rainbows
  24. Erosion
  25. Wind and waves
  26. River and valley
  27. Weather watcher: geologist
  28. Tree and soil
  29. Water in a dry land
  30. Weather watcher: data reader
  31. Grade 5 review
  32. Review: heat and the Earth
  33. Thunder and lightning
  34. The sound of lightning
  35. Grade 5 celebration: weather watchers
Grade 635 levels
  1. Dust
  2. Clean city air
  3. The Nashtifan windmills
  4. Oil and coal
  5. Kite and sun
  6. Let's not waste electricity
  7. The journey of energy
  8. A safe place
  9. Let's plant saplings
  10. Dusty day
  11. Swimming in a storm? No!
  12. The shade of a tree
  13. Weather data
  14. Winter data
  15. Shoes with good grip
  16. Grade 6 review
  17. Lightning
  18. Ice and friction
  19. Snow chains
  20. Weather watcher: winter
  21. A snowy day
  22. Grade 6 master weather watcher
  23. Weather watcher: grade 6
  24. The sun, the engine of weather
  25. Wind power plant
  26. Dam and electricity
  27. Weather watcher: energy
  28. Clean energy
  29. Weather watcher: lightning
  30. Forest and air
  31. Review: energy and weather
  32. Weather watcher: clean air
  33. How far away is the storm?
  34. Counting seconds
  35. Grade 6 celebration: weather watchers

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The Android app is on Cafe Bazaar and Myket, Iran's app stores. Anywhere else, play the online version in any browser.