Four Seasons

Lab Brief #3

🎯 Your mission

Set it up. Test it. Be amazed.

⚡ The twist

Weather isn't random — it's just complicated.

What you'll learn

In spring, flowers bloom. In summer, it is warm. In fall, leaves change color. In winter, it can snow!

Key words · 1 of 2

snow
Soft white flakes of frozen water that fall from clouds.
season
One of the four times of year with its own kind of weather.

Key words · 2 of 2

spring
The warm season when plants start to grow and flowers bloom.

Make a hypothesis first

Before you observe: what shape will it leave?

Say your guess out loud — then find out if you were right.

Get ready

🧰 What you need

rocks

⚠️ Safety first

Have an adult check your set-up before you start, and tidy everything away afterwards.

Step 1 of 4 · Read

Say the vocabulary words out loud. Can you repeat them?

Step 2 of 4 · Do

Collect leaves, rocks, and sticks from outside. Sort them by size.

Step 3 of 4 · Observe

Did anything change? Point to what is different.

Step 4 of 4 · Record

Point to the things you used in the activity.

Question 1 of 3

What season comes after summer?

Question 2 of 3

Do trees lose leaves in fall?

Question 3 of 3

What comes before summer?

Mind = blown

🌋 There are 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth right now.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 3 right.

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✨ More to explore

🌍 Where you see this in real life: This is shaping the ground you walk on, slowly, every single day.

🏆 Stretch challenge (try it 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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