Lesson 29 of 84 · Earth Materials

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🧪Lab Brief #29

Earth Materials.

🎯 Your mission

Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.

⚡ The twist

The slowest changes are the biggest ones.

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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

Predict: which will erode faster?

What You'll Learn

Stalactites hang from cave ceilings. They form from water dripping and leaving minerals behind.

Key Words

desert
forest
weather

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Look at the picture and read the labels.

Step 2 — Do

Pour water on a pile of sand and a pile of rocks. Watch how the water flows differently.

Step 3 — Observe

Draw a picture of what you observe.

Step 4 — Record

Share your results with a partner.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What is a volcano?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Where you see this in real life

This is shaping the ground you walk on, slowly, every single day.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find a rock outside and try to guess how old it is.

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For the dinner table

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

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