Lesson 18 of 84 · Weather

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Landforms Around Us

🧪Lab Brief #18

Landforms Around Us.

🎯 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

A volcano is a mountain that can erupt, sending hot melted rock called lava to the surface.

Key Words

fossil
erosion
landform

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Read the introduction. What is this lesson about?

Step 2 — Do

Make a mini water cycle: put warm water in a bowl, cover it with plastic wrap, and place an ice cube on top. Watch what happens.

Step 3 — Observe

Look for something that changed. What is it?

Step 4 — Record

Circle the correct answer on your worksheet.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What are clouds made of?

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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