Feel the Wind

Lab Brief #7

🎯 Your mission

Predict it first. Then prove yourself right (or wrong).

⚡ The twist

Today's mountain was yesterday's ocean floor.

What you'll learn

Wind is moving air. You can feel wind blow on your face!

Key words

wind
Moving air that you can feel outdoors.

Make a hypothesis first

Guess: where will the water go first?

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

Get ready

🧰 What you need

rocks
sand

⚠️ 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

Feel different types of dirt, sand, and rocks. Which is smoothest?

Step 3 of 4 · Observe

What happened? Tell a grown-up what you noticed.

Step 4 of 4 · Record

Tell a grown-up your favorite part of the activity.

Question 1 of 3

Can you see the wind?

Question 2 of 3

Does wind make things move?

Question 3 of 3

What makes a rainbow?

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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