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Soil: What's In It? (Part 2)

🧪Lab Brief #36

Soil: What's In It? (Part 2).

🎯 Your mission

Run the experiment. Find out what really happens.

⚡ 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

Soil is made of tiny rocks, dead plants, water, and air. Plants grow in soil.

Key Words

rain
snow
wind

Materials Needed

spray bottle
cups
thermometer
rain gauge
cotton balls
food coloring

Safety First

Wear safety goggles when mixing liquids.

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Read about Weather with a partner or grown-up.

Step 2 — Do

Keep a weather journal for 5 days. Each day draw the sky and write the temperature.

Step 3 — Observe

Watch carefully. What happens?

Step 4 — Record

Draw and write about what you learned.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What is erosion?

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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