Four Seasons

Lab Brief #6

🎯 Your mission

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

⚡ The twist

The slowest changes are the biggest ones.

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

Predict: which will erode faster?

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

Use your eyes, ears, and hands to explore. What do you notice?

Step 4 of 4 · Record

Color a picture to show what happened.

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

🌊 The deepest part of the ocean is deeper than Mount Everest is tall.

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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