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Rocks and Rolls

From The Magic School Bus · 1996

Rocks and Rolls
26 min2nd3rd4th5thScience
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Summary

A class monument keeps crumbling, leading to a lesson on how land wears away. They explore how water, wind, and ice slowly reshape the Earth.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

A class monument keeps crumbling, leading to a lesson on how land wears away.

  1. What forces slowly wear rock away?
  2. How can water move whole piles of sand and soil?
  3. How might a hill change over hundreds of years?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: erosion, weathering, sediment.

Try it: Explain how rain and wind could slowly wear down a sandcastle.

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