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Lesson 16 of 30 · Matter

Lesson30 XP🧪 Potion Kitchen

Gritty Sand

Gritty Sand
🧪Lab Brief #16

Gritty Sand.

🎯 Your mission

Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.

⚡ The twist

Mixing two safe things doesn't always make a safe thing.

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Mind = Blown

💧 Hot water can freeze faster than cold water under the right conditions. Nobody fully understands why.

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Make a hypothesis first

Predict: will the mixture get hotter, colder, or stay the same?

What You'll Learn

Sand is made of tiny pieces of rock. It feels rough and gritty.

Key Words

Tap a word to see its definition.

Steps

Step 1Read

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

Step 2Do

Drop a rock and a feather into water. Which one sinks? Which one floats?

Step 3Observe

Look closely! What do you see?

Step 4Record

Draw a picture of what you learned today.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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Does a rock sink in water?

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Where you see this in real life

This is happening in your kitchen right now — every time food cooks.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find one ingredient in a snack and look up what it does.

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For the dinner table

What's something we cook that mixes things together this way?

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Gritty Sand

Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.

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