Where Puddles Go

Lab Brief #4

🎯 Your mission

Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.

⚡ The twist

Today's mountain was yesterday's ocean floor.

What you'll learn

Puddles form when it rains. The sun dries up puddles by making the water go into the air.

Key words

Make a hypothesis first

Guess: where will the water go first?

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

Step 1 of 3 · Read

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

Step 2 of 3 · Observe

Look closely! What do you see?

Step 3 of 3 · Record

Draw a picture of what you learned today.

Question 1 of 3

What happens to puddles on a sunny day?

Question 2 of 3

Is the sun hot or cold?

Question 3 of 3

What do we wear when it rains?

Mind = blown

🪨 Every grain of sand on every beach used to be a mountain.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 3 right.

🎯

We'll pick an experiment that matches exactly how you're thinking right now.

✨ 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?”

Send it to a parent who's looking for a 10-minute kitchen science win.

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