Lesson 5 of 15 · Weather
Experiment⭐ 30 XP🌋 Rock RealmSand at the Beach
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Sand at the Beach.
🎯 Your mission
Set it up. Test it. Be amazed.
⚡ The twist
The slowest changes are the biggest ones.
Mind = Blown
🪨 Every grain of sand on every beach used to be a mountain.
Make a hypothesis first
Predict: which will erode faster?
What You'll Learn
Sand is tiny pieces of rock. You can find sand at the beach!
Key Words
Tap a word to see its definition.
Materials Needed
- rocks
- sand
Safety First
- Have an adult check your set-up before you start, and tidy everything away afterwards.
Steps
Say the vocabulary words out loud. Can you repeat them?
Feel different types of dirt, sand, and rocks. Which is smoothest?
Draw a picture of what you see.
Share what you learned with someone!
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 2What falls from clouds?
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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Ready?
Sand at the Beach
Set it up. Test it. Be amazed.
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