Lesson 12 of 30 · Weather and Seasons
Experiment⭐ 30 XP🌋 Rock RealmLeaves Fall and Grow
Weather and Seasons.
🎯 Your mission
Predict it first. Then prove yourself right (or wrong).
⚡ The twist
The slowest changes are the biggest ones.
Mind = Blown
🌊 The deepest part of the ocean is deeper than Mount Everest is tall.
Make a hypothesis first
Predict: which will erode faster?
What You'll Learn
Trees lose their leaves in fall and grow new ones in spring.
Key Words
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Materials Needed
- rocks
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?
Collect leaves, rocks, and sticks from outside. Sort them by size.
Did anything change? Point to what is different.
Point to the things you used in the activity.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3Do trees lose leaves in fall?
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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Leaves Fall and Grow
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