# Day 38 · Plan a safe record someone can keep

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

## Your notes

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.

## Pick one way

**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.

You can ask a grown-up to read or write exactly what you tell them. Do a small useful part, rest or pass. A made-up note is not a real sky sighting.

[Picture-free paper labels](../paper/SKY-DESK.html) · [Optional desk](../interactive/index.html)

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[Full teacher start](../teacher/day-38.html) · [Home offer](../home/H08.html). Keep the first idea before giving an example.

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