Stephanie wrote in asking how I got the live weather reports on the “What’s / How’s the weather in …?” game.

The live widget I used is from weather.com and it’s called “Weather on your website”. If you don’t have your own site and want to choose different countries, ask the computer teacher, they might be able to knock up a page for you on the school’s website.

The game itself is really good:

1. Teach the weather song and the “Where are you from?” song.
2. Give the kids a map with the countries.
3. They guess the weather and temperature in each place.
4. Print out the live weather reports just before the lesson
5. See who got the closest.

It’s a nice way to combine two themes and it’s really great seeing it click in the students’ heads when they realise that Summer and Winter really are reversed in the hemispheres!

Have a try of the game in class and oh, don’t forget the online games for learning the weather and countries.

There are also some countries ideas on the members forum: here and here and the song with new countries here (part way down the page.)