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Welcome to Sunny Days Ahead This Twine Game runs through the major choices and challenges of the EscapeIF experience. Sunny Days Ahead targets grades 4 - 6 with a focus on Time. Global Competancy Framework Learning Objectives achieved by Sunny Days Ahead include: - M2.1.4 Identify or solve problems involving equivalences between different units of time - M2.2.2 Solve problems involving elapsed time, including when times are presented in a schedule - M2.2.3 Solve problems involving conversions of time: 12-hour and 24-hour time, time zones, and different units of time ''Game Overview'' The players are opening their first bakery and are asked to keep track of their schedule to make sure orders are completed. Players have a menu of baked goods, from cakes to cupcakes to cookies to prepare in time for their customers. The players have to asses the situation, plan when and how they are going to ensure the orders get completed. This activity is split into two days, with Entry 6 marking the start of Day 2. This game does not need to proceed to day 2 if there is not enough time. [[Act 1: The First Day|day1]]

Welcome to your new bakery! After carefully honing your craft as the city's greatest mud pie baker, you’re finally ready to step out on your own and launch your career. Turns out, word travels fast, and you already have your first customer! You barely have a second to finish moving in before it's time to get to work! Choice: You have two pending orders you have to get done by the end of the Week! Today it’s Wednesday and both orders will be due by Friday. The two orders are: A Birthday Party asking for 36 cupcakes. A Wedding looking for as much cake as you can make! Which order should you take on first? Know that if you leave an order for later, you'll have less time to get it finished! [[Start with the birthday party|partyfirst]] [[Start with the wedding|cookiesfirst]]

You decide to start with the birthday party. The party organizers have asked for 36 of your finest Mud Cupcakes! If it takes 10 minutes to make and decorate each cupcake. How many minutes would it take to make all the cupcakes? [[30 minutes|wrong]] [[160 minutes|wrong]] [[360 minutes|Cpartyfirst]] [[400 minutes|wrong]]

You decide to start with the Wedding. The wedding planner has agreed to buy as much cake as you can make! You have until Friday to make your cakes! As it is currently Wednesday, how many working hours do you have available to bake the cakes? Remember, there are 8 hours in a working day! [[12 hours|wrong]] [[20 hours|wrong]] [[18 hours|wrong]] [[24 hours|Ccookiesfirst]]

Your schedule tool tracks time in hours! How many hours would it take to make the 36 cupcakes (360 minutes). [[4 hours|wrong]] [[6 hours|Cparty2]] [[10 hours|wrong]] [[12 hours|wrong]]

If you start work on Wednesday at 9:00 AM. What time will you have finished making the cookies? It might help you to draw out a clock to count the hours. <img src = "scheduleA.png"> [[3:00pm|Cparty3]] [[12:00pm|wrong]] [[10:00am|wrong]] [[1:00pm|wrong]]

<img src = "scheduleB.png"> You finally step back and appreciate your work so far! You’ve successfully scheduled in your cupcake baking time. It’s time to turn your attention to the Wedding! How much time do you have left before the end of day on Friday to bake the cakes? Remember, you have the rest of Wednesday, All of Thursday and All of Friday. [[12 hours|wrong]] [[14 hours|wrong]] [[16 hours|wrong]] [[18 hours|Cparty4]]

If it takes 8 hours to bake one cake, how many cakes can you bake? Remember, you have 18 hours left before the deadline! [[2 cakes|Cparty5]] [[4 cakes|wrong]] [[6 cakes|wrong]] [[8 cakes|wrong]]

Just as you’re about to get started on your baking, you get a last minute order! It’s from a close friend who is asking for 12 cupcakes by the end of the week! You don’t know if you’ll have the time to complete the order! Should you accept this last-minute order? Why or why not? Your current schedule: <img src = "scheduleC.png"> We know that it takes 10 minutes to bake and decorate 1 cupcake. How long would it take to prepare the 12 cupcakes we need for this order? [[1 hour|wrong]] [[3 hours|wrong]] [[2 hours|Clastminuteorder]] [[5 hours|wrong]]

To find out how many cakes you can bake, you should divide the amount of time you have by the amount of time it takes to bake a cake! If you have 24 hours and it takes 8 hours to bake a cake, how many cakes can you bake? [[1 cake|wrong]] [[3 cakes|Cwedding2]] [[5 cakes|wrong]] [[7 cakes|wrong]]

Knowing that you still have to fulfill the cupcake order, you realize you can’t determine how many cakes to bake until you know how long it’s going to take to bake the cupcakes! With this in mind, you decide to plan for the birthday party order before baking the wedding. [[The Party|partyfirst]]

Looking at our schedule, do we have 2 free hours we can use to bake and decorate these cupcakes? When? <img src = "scheduleC.png"> [[No|wrong]] [[Yes, Friday Evening|wrong]] [[Yes, Wednesday Evening|Corder2]] [[Yes, Friday Morning|wrong]]

It’s been a busy first week but your detailed scheduling has allowed you to break down all of your tasks. After 3 days of hard work, all three of your orders go out the door, perfectly baked and on time! As the new week starts, you get a new order! You are making the food for a massive city-wide banquet. The city manager has asked for 1200 cookies and 10 cakes. You realize that an order of this size if going to take alot of time! Luckily, the city manager has allowed you to set your own deadline. When faced with a large problem such as this one, it’s best to break things down into steps. Lets review the basics to start. It takes 1 hour to bake a batch of 50 cookies. How many hours will it take to bake 1200 cookies? [[24 hours|Corderfinal]] [[30 hours|wrong]] [[15 hours|wrong]] [[10 hours|wrong]]

<img src = "scheduleD.png"> Remember that you work 8 hours a day, how many work days would it take to bake all of the cookies? [[1 days|wrong]] [[3 days|Cbigorder]] [[5 days|wrong]] [[7 days|wrong]]

It takes 8 hours to bake and decorate one cake. How many hours would it take to bake all 10 cakes? [[40 hours|wrong]] [[50 hours|wrong]] [[70 hours|wrong]] [[80 hours|Cbigorder2]]

How many days would it take to bake all the cakes, if it takes 80 hours total and you work for 8 hours a day? [[6 days|wrong]] [[10 days|Cbigorder3]] [[12 days|wrong]] [[18 days|wrong]]

<img src = "scheduleF.png"> Together, we’ve figured out that it would take 10 days to bake all of the cakes and 3 days to bake all of the cookies. How many days is this in total? [[8 days|wrong]] [[10 days|wrong]] [[12 days|wrong]] [[13 days|bigorder5]]

You confidently call the manager and let them know it will take you three weeks, or 11 days, to deliver the goods. You immediately hear some bad news however. The mayor is going to be in town in 2 weeks and they need everything delivered by then! You think about the problem for a second and realize that a new baking mixer that would help speed up the baking time! Currently, one cake takes 8 hours to make, with 2 hours spent baking the cake in the oven and 6 hours spent preparing the cake. <img src = "cakeA.png"> Your new mixer allows you to PREPARE a cake twice as fast! With this in mind, How long would it take to make 1 cake using your new mixer? Keep in mind that the mixer can’t help you with all stages of the cake making process! [[5 hours|Cbigorderfinal]] [[6 hours|wrong]] [[7 hours|wrong]] [[8 hours|wrong]]

<img src = "scheduleG.png"> Your bakery is the talk of the town and suddenly everyone wants to make an order. You realize there is no way for you to keep up with the deadlines on your own and decide it’s time to hire a helper. You know two people who would make great helpers but you can only afford to hire one for right now! ''Jean:'' A vetran baker who appreciates taking their time and doing things right. Though Jean bakes slower than you, they never make mistakes! ''Emmanuel:'' An eager new Baker, Emmanuel is a quick on thier feet and likes to get work done fast. This means they bake faster than you, but does mean they tend to make mistakes and have to spend time re-baking every so often! [[Hire Jean|jean]] [[Hire Emmanuel|emm]]

<img src = "scheduleH.png"> You hire Jean to help you at the bakery. Jean takes more time to bake, but you know they are never going to make a mistake! Jean can prepare 10 cookies in 12 minutes. You can prepare 10 cookies in 10 minutes. Jean can also prepare a cake in 6 hours, you can bake a cake in 5 hours. <img src = "diagramB.png"> In one day, how many cookies can you and Jean make? [[200 cookies|wrong]] [[880 cookies|Cjean]] [[960 cookies|wrong]] [[180 cookies|wrong]]

<img src = "scheduleI.png"> You hire Emmanuel to help you at the bakery. Emmanuel bakes much faster than you, but one out of every 10 cookies and one out of every 8 cakes is not good enough and must be removed! Emmanuel can prepare 10 cookies in 8 minutes. You can prepare 10 cookies in 10 minutes. Emmanuel can also prepare a cake in 4 hours, you can bake a cake in 5 hours. <img src = "diagramC.png"> In one day, how many cookies can you and Emmanuel make? Remember to keep in mind that Emmanuel makes 1 bad cookie out of every 10. [[600 cookies|wrong]] [[1020 cookies|Cemm]] [[920 cookies|wrong]] [[500 cookies|wrong]]

You’ve gotten through your first month as a baker. With a strong team behind you and word of your cookies on every street, you’ve gotten alot done! Your incredible scheduling skills will surely help your business become a success! [[Play Again|Intro]]

That's not quite right! (if: (history:)'s last is "partyfirst")[You can always figure out how long something will take to complete by multiplying the time it takes by the amount of tasks you have to finish!] (if: (history:)'s last is "party2")[Divide the number of minutes by 60!] (if: (history:)'s last is "party5")[Try dividing 18 by 8!] (if: (history:)'s last is "order2")[You just need 2 free hours!] (link-goto: "Back", (history:)'s last)

That's right! [[Continue|party2]]

That's right! [[Now just to schedule the time!|party3]]

That's right! [[Now to mark our schedule|party4]]

That's right! [[How many cakes can you bake?|party5]]

That's Correct! **Discussion:** Could you have made more cakes if you baked the cakes BEFORE making the cupcakes? [[Continue|lastminuteorder]]

That's correct! [[How many cakes can you make?|wedding2]]

That's Correct! **Discussion:** Though you can bake 3 cakes, how many SHOULD you bake? Is there anything else you should be planning for? [[Continue|wedding3]]

That's correct! [[Do you have time?|order2]]

That's right! [[Continue|orderfinal]]

That's right! [[With hours in mind, we can plan for days!|bigorder]]

That's correct! [[Now to plan for the cakes!|bigorder2]]

That's right! [[How many days is that?|bigorder3]]

That's Correct! [[Continue|bigorder4]]

That's Correct! How many work weeks is 13 days (where 1 work week is 5 days?). [[2 weeks|wrong]] [[4 weeks|wrong]] [[3 weeks|Cbigorder5]] [[1 week|wrong]]

That's Correct! [[Continue|bigorderfinal]]

With each cake only taking 5 hours, can you deliver all of the cakes in 2 weeks? Keep in mind you work for 8 hours a day, and there are 5 days in a week. [[Yes|CCbigorderFinal]] [[No|wrong]]

That's Correct! [[Continue|newhire]]

That's Correct! Jean only works 4 days a week, from Monday to Thursday. With this in mind, how many cookies can you both make a week? Remember, Jean makes 400 cookies in one day, and You can make 480 cookies a day. [[2000 cookies|wrong]] [[3000 cookies|wrong]] [[4000 cookies|CakesJean]] [[5000 cookies|wrong]]

That's Correct! <img src = "diagramB.png"> How many cakes can you and Jean make in a week? Remember, Jean only works 4 days a week. whereas you work 5! [[13 cakes|CCakesJean]] [[15 cakes|wrong]] [[17 cakes|wrong]] [[19 cakes|wrong]]

That's Correct! [[Conclusion|end]]]

That's Correct! Emmanuel only works on 4 days a week, from Monday to Thursday. With this in mind, how many cookies can you both make a week? Remember, Emmanuel can make 540 cookies in one day, whereas You can make 480 cookies in one day. [[3000 cookies|wrong]] [[5420 cookies|wrong]] [[4560 cookies|CakeEmm]] [[3888 cookies|wrong]]

That's Correct! <img src = "diagramC.png"> How many cakes can you and Emmanuel make in a week? [[15 cakes|CCakesEmm]] [[13 cakes|wrong]] [[17 cakes|wrong]] [[19 cakes|wrong]]

That's Correct! [[Conclusion|end]]