Lesson 22 of 84 · Earth Materials

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🧪Lab Brief #22

Earth Materials.

🎯 Your mission

Play with the model. Break it. Understand it.

⚡ The twist

Today's mountain was yesterday's ocean floor.

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Mind = Blown

🪨 Every grain of sand on every beach used to be a mountain.

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Make a hypothesis first

Guess: where will the water go first?

What You'll Learn

Mountains are very tall land. Some mountains have snow on top!

Key Words

spring
summer

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Talk about Earth Materials with a grown-up. What do you already know?

Step 2 — Do

Collect leaves, rocks, and sticks from outside. Sort them by size.

Step 3 — Observe

What happened? Tell a grown-up what you noticed.

Step 4 — Record

Tell a grown-up your favorite part of the activity.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What do we wear when it rains?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Where you see this in real life

Today's weather, tomorrow's beach, next century's coastline — all this.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Look at the sky for 5 minutes and try to predict tomorrow's weather.

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For the dinner table

“What's the slowest change you can think of?”

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