Lesson 31 of 84 · Fossils
Simulation⭐ 30 XPWhat Is Weather? (Part 2)
What Is Weather? (Part 2).
🎯 Your mission
Play with the model. Break it. Understand it.
⚡ The twist
Nature loves to surprise the careful watcher.
Mind = Blown
🔬 The more you look, the more nature shows you.
Make a hypothesis first
Before you start: write down what you think will happen, and why.
What You'll Learn
Weather is what is happening in the sky right now: sunny, rainy, snowy, or windy.
Key Words
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Steps
Read about Fossils with a partner or grown-up.
Keep a weather journal for 5 days. Each day draw the sky and write the temperature.
Watch carefully. What happens?
Draw and write about what you learned.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What is the water cycle?
Where you see this in real life
This shows up in your everyday life more than you'd think.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Try one experiment in real life this week — even a tiny one.
For the dinner table
“What's the most surprising thing you learned today?”
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