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Spinning Tornadoes

Spinning Tornadoes
🧪Lab Brief #11

Spinning Tornadoes.

🎯 Your mission

Learn the rule. Then catch nature using 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

A tornado is a powerful spinning wind that comes down from a thunderstorm cloud.

Key Words

Tap a word to see its definition.

Steps

Step 1Read

Look at the new words. Can you say each one?

Step 2Observe

Use your senses to describe what you notice.

Step 3Record

Write 1-2 sentences about what happened.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

1 of 3

What makes rain?

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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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Spinning Tornadoes

Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.

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