Lesson 11 of 15 · Weather
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🌋 Rock RealmSpinning Tornadoes
Spinning Tornadoes.
🎯 Your mission
Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.
⚡ The twist
Today's mountain was yesterday's ocean floor.
Mind = Blown
🪨 Every grain of sand on every beach used to be a mountain.
Make a hypothesis first
Guess: where will the water go first?
What You'll Learn
A tornado is a powerful spinning wind that comes down from a thunderstorm cloud.
Key Words
Tap a word to see its definition.
Steps
Look at the new words. Can you say each one?
Use your senses to describe what you notice.
Write 1-2 sentences about what happened.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What makes rain?
Where you see this in real life
This is shaping the ground you walk on, slowly, every single day.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Find a rock outside and try to guess how old it is.
For the dinner table
“What's the slowest change you can think of?”
Next Smart Experiment
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Spinning Tornadoes
Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.
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