Interactive Game
Moon Hourglass
Turn the glass and stardust starts to fall. The moon ring empties with the minutes, and a soft gong says the time is up.
Teacher guide · Sleeping Fox
Noise meter game: how to use it in class
A noise meter the class actually cares about: get loud and the fox wakes up.
Open the gameAt a glance
- Ages
- 3–11
- Players
- Whole class
- Time
- 5–20 min
- Prep
- Allow the microphone — or use pretend noise
- Online lessons
- In the room only — it listens to your microphone
- No wifi
- Keeps working once it has been opened
How to play
Ask the fox to listen to the room, and allow the microphone.
It only measures how loud the room is — nothing is recorded.
Stay quiet and he sleeps on; a little noise and an ear twitches.
Too loud, and he wakes with a start.
Set how lightly he sleeps: library, normal, or party day.
No microphone? A pretend-noise mode runs the whole thing by hand.
Variations
Three ways to play it differently once the class knows the rules.
Library or party day
Choose library for silent reading — a whisper wakes him — or party day, when only a real shout will.
Pretend noise
No microphone, or not allowed to use one? Pretend-noise mode lets you move the meter by hand.
With the hourglass
Turn the Moon Hourglass in another tab: the class wins if the fox is still asleep at the gong.
Best topics for this game
Word lists that suit it, with pictures and translations.
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