Lesson 26 of 84 · Weather
Simulation⭐ 30 XP🌋 Rock RealmMeasuring Temperature
Measuring Temperature.
🎯 Your mission
Play with the model. Break it. Understand it.
⚡ The twist
Weather isn't random — it's just complicated.
Mind = Blown
🌊 The deepest part of the ocean is deeper than Mount Everest is tall.
Make a hypothesis first
Before you observe: what shape will it leave?
What You'll Learn
A thermometer measures how hot or cold the air is. We use degrees to describe temperature.
Key Words
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Steps
Read about Weather 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 a fossil?
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?”
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