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Grade 3 Science · World 3: Wind and Water Works · Level 18
Schoolyard Detective
Look at a picture of a schoolyard and explain what water or wind changed.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 18
- Be a land detective at your school! Look for places where water or wind has changed the soil.
- Water clues: it happened after rain, it's at the bottom of a slope, or it's under a roof edge or downspout.
- Wind clues: it happened on a dry, windy day, and dry sand or dust piled up against something.
- Try it with a grown-up: walk around your school or yard. Find one change made by water and one made by wind, and draw them.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:
- S3E1.c — Make observations of the local environment to construct an explanation of how water and/or wind have made changes to soil and/or rocks over time. (Clarification statement: Examples could include ripples in dirt on a playground and a hole formed under gutters.)