Emergency Sub Plan: Wet Weather

Written to be run in the rain rather than instead of it. It needs a covered spot to start and finish from.

What you need

**Minutes 0 to 5.** Under cover. Boundary named. The rule stated: we are going out in this on purpose.

**Minutes 5 to 20.** Water tracking. Where does the water go on this site. Follow it. Find the place it collects, the place it runs, and the place that stays dry. Three answers.

**Minutes 20 to 35.** Leaf test. Find a leaf water runs off and a leaf water sits on. Bring both back under cover. Compare the surfaces closely. The waxy one is doing something and the other is not.

**Minutes 35 to 50.** Sound. Find the loudest place to stand in the rain and the quietest. Under a broad leaf, under a metal roof, in the open, under a dense tree. Rank them.

**Minutes 50 to 60.** Back under cover. Dry off. One sentence each. The flood spot they found is worth reporting to whoever runs the site.

The session

Boots. A covered area. Spare clothes if the school has them.

If it rains

Move to a covered area and run the observation parts only. Nothing here requires dry ground except the drawing, and a clipboard solves that.

For the person leaving the plan

Print this, put it in the folder, and write the class name and the boundary at the top. That is all the preparation this needs, and it stays useful for years.

More no prep sessions

See the teacher starting point for the routines that make any outdoor session work.